Kinax Normandy

Photos by Sylvain Halgand text by Sylvain Halgand. From the collection of Sylvain Halgand. Last update 2022-12-13 par Sylvain Halgand.

Manufactured or assembled in France from 1953 to 1954.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 1215

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Chronology of cameras Kinax

Traduction de Sylvain Halgand.

Normandy is according to the photograph of the article presented low, the equivalent of Super Kinax III, but that that I have prove to be Super Kinax. It seems that these two successive models had the same name in the USA.

About the cameras intended for the American market, I have a very personal hypothesis on the reason of their name of French area. I think that they are the French areas in which, American fight during the two world wars:

Please see at french part (left one).

However, these cameras were sold in the USA (and in other Anglo-Saxon countries having taken part in the same combat) in the years which followed the second world war, whereas the GI had just returned on their premises, and that the veterans of the WWI were always alive. Marketing….

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