Sinar
| Sinar Photography AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Peter Metzger ( Executive Director ) ( Delegate of the Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | photography |
| Website | www.sinar.swiss |
The Sinar Photography AG is a Swiss manufacturer of professional cameras , based in Zurich .
The company goes back to the photo studio of Carl August Koch . His son Hans Carl expanded the studio from 1911 to include a photo shop. After his untimely death, his widow took over the business and in 1947 transferred it to his son Carl Hans Koch , who was a qualified photographer and photo dealer. Out of dissatisfaction with the large format cameras of the time , he developed a modular camera and received the first patents for his Sinar camera in 1947. The modular and standardized construction then led to the name of the first Sinar in 1948, the “Sinar Norma”. In 1968 the son Hans-Carl joined the family stock corporation , and production moved to Feuerthalen .
In November 2004 a cooperation in the field of digital camera backs began with Jenoptik , which in September 2005 led to a 51 percent stake. The remaining 49% remained in family ownership. In April 2007 Jenoptik also took over this 49% of the shares and is therefore the sole owner.
On October 1, 2009, Zurich-based Sinar Photography AG, which emerged from Tekno AG , took over the areas of development, sales, service and support for Sinar AG products . On January 1, 2011, all product and trademark rights to Sinar were transferred to Sinar Photography AG . Both the production and the warehouse are managed from Zurich regardless of the previous connections with partners and suppliers and the previous location. The former company Sinar AG in Feuerthalen was dissolved at the end of 2011.
Leica Camera AG, Wetzlar, took over 100% of Sinar Photography AG, Zurich, at the end of 2013. Sinar's marketing, product management, support, development and production will remain in Switzerland.
Cameras
- 1947: Sinar Norma
- 1970: Sinar p
- Sinar c and f
- 1984: Sinar p2
- 1986: Sinar c2 and f2
- 1988: Sinar e
- 2002: Sinar m and p3
- 2008: Sinar Hy6 (identical to Rolleiflex Hy6 and Leaf AFi)
- 2008: Sinar arTec
- 2010: Sinar p-slr
- 2011: Sinar eShutter
- 2012: Sinar rePro
- 2013: Sinar rePro RC
- 2013: Sinar p-MF-L for Leica S
- 2014: Sinar CTM (Color To Match)
- 2016: Sinar eShutter 250
- 2016: Sinarback S 30 | 45
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry of "Sinar AG" in the commercial register of the canton of Zurich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sinar History ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sinar Photography AG takes over the trademark rights of Sinar AG ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 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. fotofenster.de, May 9, 2011, accessed on July 3, 2012
