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Where were cameras made?
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Wiki User
January 02, 2012 2:24AM
Modern photography really took off in Germany;
Leica and Contax rangefinders.
Rolleiflex TLR
Kine Exakta 35mm SLR.
Everybody else, including the Japanese (who now dominate the precision camera market) started off by copying 1930s German designs.