As Minhas Câmaras: Porst Compact Reflex SP (1976)

domingo, 2 de dezembro de 2018

Porst Compact Reflex SP (1976)

#393

This photo is from the copy I own

Gently donated by Mrs Isabel Alber. Thank you!

History and technical features

Photo Porst was a German distributor and retailer of many brands of cameras. It was founded in 1919 by Hanns Porst in Nuremberg, Germany. For many years Porst bought cameras from other manufacturers, among them Adox, Agfa, Balda, Braun, Dacora, and Franka, and rebadged them. In the early years, from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s, it used the Hapo brand, an acronym of Hans Porst. Later on, the house brand cameras appeared under the PORST name, e.g. PORST compact reflex or PORST 135 BS. In the 1970s the house-brand Carena was added. A lot of these later house-brand cameras were produced by Cosina, but also by Balda, Franka, Fuji, Mamiya, Taron, and Yashica.

By 1996, the Porst chain of camera stores was Germany's largest photographic retailer, and in that year it was purchased by a Belgian investment group. In 2001, ownership was transferred to Pixelnet. The following year, the company became insolvent and the rights to the name Porst were sold to the German group Ringfoto.

Source: camera-wiki.org

Specifications

Porst Compact Reflex SP, also known as the Cosina CSR, 1976. Electronic-shutter M42 mount 35mm SLR.

Source: flickr.com

Model

Seral number 7833172

Reference sites

camera-wiki.org

flickr.com

Manual

Cosina CSR manual in english

Batteries