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Dsides
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Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 09:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Does anyone have information on who (besides Pentacon) made cameras under this name? I just picked up a leaf shutter SLR that looks like a Kiev 10 with this name on it.
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Glenn
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Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 09:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I suspect you may have picked up one of the Pentina derivatives, made of course by Pentacon. Plenty of information on the internet, if one cares to look.
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Dsides
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Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 10:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yeah, I saw those. Those are more like Nikkorex's than Kiev 10's. Here's a pic on the bay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true &item=150606892537&si=HooVwy48Fbs1CPUTjrcuSIBG2Uo%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK %3AMEWNX%3AIT
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Dsides
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Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2011 - 08:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It's a Kowa H!
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M_currie
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Posted on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 07:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cavalier used to be a house brand of Willoughby's, a big camera shop in New York. I have a Cavalier lens I bought there in about 1970. No idea who made it.

Here's a page on the Ricoh Singlex TLS, in its Sears version, also sold as a Cavalier, as well as "Focal" for K-Mart.

http://www.mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/sears-ricoh_tls.html

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