Category: Hong Kong

Halina 3000 In the 1970s, Haking / Halina had been making cameras for about twenty years, a mix of entry-level models and attempts at mid-range. Meanwhile, the market had matured into able shooters with a better speed range, quality lenses and auto features. Where the Japanese mainstay was the TLR models, with compacts at second priority, the Germans were going...

Halina 35X / 35X Super In the post-war years, Japan was drawn into a cultural revision and economic and industrial rebound driven by General MacArthur’s reconstruction plan. Far from the scale of the Marshal Plan in Europe, but aggressive enough to set the wheels in motion to make Japan the superpower it is now. Under the occupying rules, Japan was...