Ouyama

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The company Ouyama based in Shenzhen ( China ) provides digital and analog cameras for years, often come under other brand names on the market. Not only the spelling of these brand names, but also the design of their company logos are often confusingly similar to the brand names and company logos of renowned camera manufacturers.

Brand names

Ouyama Olympic viewfinder camera

Ouyama cameras have come onto the market under the “brand names” Ouyama, Canomatic, Charman, Pearl, Nippon, Kamachi, Olympia, Nokina and MAXIM.

Fakes

Specific counterfeits from Ouyama are also known. A model from the Ouyama product range was sold under the name of the Sony brand.

Case study Canomatic

Canomatic Logo - The resemblance to Canon's logo is evident.

Canomatic is the most common and well-known brand name for Ouyama camera models. The company logo is reminiscent of the similar spelling and using the typical Canon typeface is very like the company logo of Canon .

Products

A Canomatic camera that looks like an SLR but isn't.
Lead in the body of the camera

Some of the cameras from Ouyama, which have come onto the market under the brand name Canomatic, suggest by their presentation that they are SLR cameras . There are even viewfinder cameras with so-called interchangeable lenses. In many cases, the camera bodies are filled with lead weights to make the user feel as though their insides are full of modern technology.

sale

In many cases, Canomatic cameras were sold “out of the trunk”. Buyers were approached on the street and encouraged to buy with supposedly cheap offers. "Canomatics" are also offered again and again on the Ebay internet auction house .

The advertising claims of the manufacturer Canomatic are problematic, as specified functions such as B. Zoom not available.

Response from Canon, consumer protection

After more than 20,000 counterfeit Canon-brand cameras were confiscated by customs and police in Europe, Canon took a position on the matter. Canon is concerned about buyers of counterfeits, as their quality is usually not comparable to Canon's and there is no guarantee. Canon sees the facts mentioned in the introduction as an offense of product counterfeiting and takes both criminal and civil law action against products under the name Canomatic.

The original Canomatic from Canon

Only two camera models were manufactured by Canon , which bear the designation "Canomatic": the Canomatic C30 in 1966 and the Canomatic M70 in 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Company Profile ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  6. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 20, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 8, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  9. ↑ a b Information on Canomatic, canon.de ( Memento from June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 29, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 29, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  12. ↑ http://www.kameramuseum.de/3pressespiegel/canomatic-op-3xx.html , April 29, 2006
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 30, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de
  14. ↑ a b Confiscation of 20,000 counterfeit Canon cameras across Europe, canon.de ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ The real Canomatic M70 ( memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramuseum.de

Web links

Commons : Canomatic  - collection of images, videos and audio files