![]() ![]() Sounds very much like a Vivitar lineup.Anyway, if anyone can add more to the discussion, I'd be delighted. ![]() Tokina seems to have been a major supplier, along with Sun, Kiron/Kino, Komine, Komura and Kawanon. The industrious gentlemen over at have gone to enormous trouble to unravel the numbering code for Soligor lenses, much as was done for Vivitar, and I have a copy which makes very interesting reading. Typically, statements like this abound, from the site:'For the time prior to 1963, Soligor were a primary supplier of lenses (although not the only one) to the Miranda Camera Co.' This gives the impression that there was an manufacturer named Soligor, but it would seem likely that Allied Impex sourced the lenses for the Miranda cameras from the same sources the company purchased lenses from for it's Soligor brand. This raises the question, 'Just who made the lenses for Miranda cameras?', and I haven't seen this issue addressed. The link between the Soligor brand and Miranda cameras is obvious, the bulk of the lenses for Miranda SLRs being branded Soligor, and some of these SLRs being released with the Soligor nameplate. This company apparently survived the demise of Allied Impex and still trades today.In the 1960's Soligor lenses appear to have been produced by a wide range of Japanese manufacturers, and there are many strong similarities, and even the hint of links, between the Vivitar and Soligor brands. Allied Impex formed a German company, A.I.C.Phototechnic GmbH, which changed it's name in 1993 to Soligor GmbH. Company Allied Impex Corporation, (originally the Allied Import and Export Corporation), who owned both the Soligor and Miranda brands from 1963 until the company folded in 1978. ![]() It's only in the past few months that it's finally dawned upon me that 'Soligor' was merely a brand, very much in the same league as Vivitar or Hanimex. ![]() For years, I believed that Soligor was a company who manufactured lenses, some very good, some rather so-so. ![]()
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