Sinar
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Sinar AG is a Swiss company producing large format cameras.
The Swiss photographer Carl Hans Koch invented the Sinar camera in 1947. His main aim was to produce a large format camera of high precision and simple operation, with a system of parts that were readily interchangeable.
Made in Feuerthalen (Switzerland, north of Zurich), Sinar cameras have built their reputation amongst studio, architectural and landscape photographers by providing time-saving solutions—like lens-independent automatic self-cocking shutters with built-in apertures, and film plane metering—major advances in their time. More recently Sinar have promoted the use of digital backs—from a shaky start in the early 1990s with an immature technology, most commercial studios now see the advantage of high resolution digital capture (albeit at medium format sizes).
[edit] Representative products
- Sinar Norma - the original system camera, convertible from 5 x 4 to 5 x 7 and 10 x 8 formats
- Sinar P - introduced in 1970, forms the basis for current conventional cameras
- Sinar-approved Sinaron lenses - made in partnership with Rodenstock, Germany
- Sinar P3 - digital view camera
- Sinar M - digital hand held camera
- Sinar F3 - digital view camera
- Sinar F1/F2 - classic 5 x 4 large format film view cameras, simple and robust, the starting point for many students of photography around the world
