David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 12/16/2009 3:03 PM Percival P. Cassidy spake thus:

IIRC. I'm not sure that Kodak was considered a serious
photographer's camera.

Kodak did make some cameras used by serious photogs, even after the
Japanese kicked our asses in that arena, but they were mostly obscure
models used by specialists. Like their view (studio) cameras and
lenses made for aerial photography, to name a couple. Their one
top-of-the-line 35mm camera (the Ektra) was already out of production
by that time.

The Medalist was "pro" too.
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After that, about the best they could come up with were consumer-level
cameras, like the Instamatic, which they did sell by the millions. But
all high-quality stuff was, as you point out, either German (Leica,
Voigtlander), Swedish (Hassy), or, mostly, Japanese (lessee: Nikon,
Canon, Ricoh, Minolta, Miranda, Yashica, Olympus, Bronica, Fuji,
etc., etc.

You forgot Asahi. The Pentax was/is under rated.
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The single exception I can think of is the Graflex press cameras
(Crown and Speed Graphics), made here in the US and used around the
world up through the 1970s.

Thank heavens they expired

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