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removedacct3 · Sep 3, 2022

Does a Revue AC 3s count? It is a rebadged version of Kevin's camera

Ian Grant · Sep 4, 2022

MrclSchprs said:
Does a Revue AC 3s count? It is a rebadged version of Kevin's camera

They were also rebadged by Alpa, so yes the same camera.

I had a CE4 and CE4s with the 50mm f1.9 and 50mm f1.4 Chinon lenses, plus power winders. A friend borrowed the CE4s and 50mm f1.4 lens and my Vivitar Series 1 70-210 zoom for a commercial job at the Le Mans 24hr race for Lucas, he normally only shot LF and MF. In the press tent they processed E6 films, and others were amazes at the quality of his results nor realising he was using a Chinon. Unfortunately they were later stolen.

In more recent years I;ve acquired two more with the same lenses, also the Chinon 135mm f2.8 which is a nice sharp lens, and a Chino 28mm f2.8 but this has too much barrel distortion to be any use.

Underrated cameras.

Ian

Acere · Sep 4, 2022

Kevin Ekstrom said:
I have a few Chinons in my collection.

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Sweet!

Paul Howell · Sep 6, 2022

Paul Howell said:
I just got a CM5

I mistyped, it is a CM7, comparing the manual specs with the Nikon FM 10, seems to be same camera, only difference is that the FM10 meters up to 3200 while the CM7 tops out at 1600 and of course the mount. I will run a roll of Foma 400 though it this week.

Acere · Sep 6, 2022

Paul Howell said:
I mistyped, it is a CM7, comparing the manual specs with the Nikon FM 10, seems to be same camera, only difference is that the FM10 meters up to 3200 while the CM7 tops out at 1600 and of course the mount. I will run a roll of Foma 400 though it this week.

Cool! I think I'll post a pic or two from my test roll.

Acere · Sep 6, 2022

Ian Grant said:
They were also rebadged by Alpa, so yes the same camera.

I had a CE4 and CE4s with the 50mm f1.9 and 50mm f1.4 Chinon lenses, plus power winders. A friend borrowed the CE4s and 50mm f1.4 lens and my Vivitar Series 1 70-210 zoom for a commercial job at the Le Mans 24hr race for Lucas, he normally only shot LF and MF. In the press tent they processed E6 films, and others were amazes at the quality of his results nor realising he was using a Chinon. Unfortunately they were later stolen.

In more recent years I;ve acquired two more with the same lenses, also the Chinon 135mm f2.8 which is a nice sharp lens, and a Chino 28mm f2.8 but this has too much barrel distortion to be any use.

Underrated cameras.

Ian

That's a cool story. I saw a Haminex brand using the same body as a CHINON SLR on goodwill.

Chan Tran · Sep 6, 2022

I guess with these old cameras one can unboxes a million times.

Paul Howell · Sep 6, 2022

The CM 7 was made by Cosina which made the FM 10 and Konica TC-X, a different shutter from the CM 7 or Nikon, it used Konica's preferred shutter speed automated exposure. The Alpa, I think was made by Chinon the first generation was M42 the second K mount, it came with a copy of the Kern Swiss 50mm 1.7 macro. Alpa users were not happy as the Japanese Alpas did not use the Swiss Alpa lens mount, in terms of build quality, Chinon was good, but not Alpa good. Sort of an irony, Chinon known for making rebranded bodies and lens, markets a rebranded Cosina.

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