Meopta
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Meopta is a Czech manufacturer of sports and military optics, cinema projectors, photo enlargers and other optical products. The company was once well-known for its still and movie cameras, although it no longer manufactures such products.
[edit] History
The company, originally called Optotechnica, was established in Prerov in 1933. In the early 1930s, it produced photo enlargers and other darkroom equipment, as well as optical lenses. By 1939, it was producing consumer cameras for the domestic market. The company's first camera was the Flexette, a 6x6 twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, starting what would become a long line of TLR models.
During World War II, the company produced a broad selection of optical equipment for the German military. In 1946, it was nationalized by Czechoslovakia's communist authorities and renamed Meopta. The company was privitized in 1992.
[edit] Cameras
TLR 6x6
Folding 6x6
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Interchangeable lens (viewfinder/rangefinder) 35mm
Fixed lens 35mm
Stereo 35mm
16mm Subminiature
Large format 13x18
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