Wirgin Edina / Edixa In the 1950s, camera makers turned towards the up-and-coming amateur user base, hobbyists who wanted a simple-to-use camera at a matching low cost. The manufacturers responded with cookie-cutter models, cheaply made, with no soul. At Wirgin, the famed Edinex line was long in the tooth, and the outstanding SLR model line was still on the drawing...

Wirgin Edinex Preamble Every article about the Wirgin company begins with four German Jews, the Wirgin brothers, that fled the country once the Nazi party came to power, and when the war was over, they came back and got it again. I wonder. Wirgin, pronounced Virgin in German, is not a common Jewish name. Furthermore, four Jewish brothers would be...