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Subject: [OM] Re: Hanimex lens
From: David Carter <Spotz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:58:44 +1200
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
>
>
>
> 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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