Haminex did sell some SLR's. Mostly badge engineered Praktica & Topcon's.
David
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Yeah - imagine Vivitar without the high end lenses. Hanimex was
> originally Australian based but sourced stuff wherever they could,
> mostly from the eastern block and Hong Kong. It was always very basic
> gear but their range was wide and the bits and piece were often
> acceptable - things like darkroom trays and so on. Lots of cheap
> plastic P&S cameras and the like. One of those post-War
> entrepreneurial success stories.
> Their top of the range stuff was the projection equipment which was
> quite popular (cheap) and their SLR lenses which were useable but ho-
> hum and still around in bucketloads, mostly busted. Usually black
> with a green stripe (and we all know that a colour stripe improves
> optical quality significantly, right?) If you were 18 years old and
> bought a Practika as your first real camera, you prolly bought a
> Hanimex telephoto as well as it was cheap and as good starter
> although it was soft and not too robust. Sort of thing that a
> storeperson would talk you into at point of sale if you couldn't
> afford the OEM equivalent. I don't think they ever put their own name
> on an SLR though but I could be wrong. If they did, it would have
> been East German.
> They had good market penetration in the UK and their stuff was
> everywhere when I was a teenager. I suspect that they didn't really
> get into the US though although some odd higher end products like a
> yellow underwater camera did seem to make it over there in some
> quantities.
> No idea what happened to them - probably bought up by an asset
> stripper and dismantled.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
>
> On 29/07/2007, at 4:04 PM, khen lim wrote:
>
>
>> Hanimex is just a trading company. They were once fairly big in
>> Australia;
>> offering lenses to those on a strict (read LOW) budget. Lenses were
>> made by
>> someone else. Hanimex was also into slide viewers, negative sleeves,
>> developer tongs, yada yada yada. If you value optical quality, look
>> elsewhere.
>>
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