Category: Japan

Taron VR Taron was a third-class camera maker that existed for a decade and a half in Japan’s post-war. Looking at the names Nikon, Minolta, and Canon as a premier class and Ricoh, Petri, and Topcon in a league behind, the likes of Taron, Neoca, and Aires are far at the list’s end. See the other Taron pages for more...

Taron 35 III MX At the heels of the classically styled Taron 35 I and II, in 1958, Taron introduced the Taron 35 III, marked as Taron MX, after which they paused till 1963 with the introduction of the meter-aided Taron Auto EE. The Taron VR is based on this model, with just slight changes. Borrowed from the above page,...

Taron 35 History has a sense of humour and good timing. In 2020, I wrote about the Taron Chic, and while looking online, I was swamped with data about a wunderkind, one Taron Egerton, who starred in the Kingsman movies. Four years later, the same Taron is now on everybody’s lips with Netflix’s Carry-On. Now, after doing the rebranded Taron...