Category: Topcon

Topcon SLR family in order of introduction. Topcon had an early start in SLR cameras, where the first models were groundbreaking. The affair lasted about twenty years, where the late models were lackluster reincarnations of the glorious ones. In the US, Topcon sold under Beseler’s name, while in OZ under Hanimex. Several other models were rebranded or made per distributors’...

Topcon IC-1 Topcon IC-1 Auto current value Topcon IC-1 user manual There are phenomena that science is yet to address. Some items regenerate themselves once you are sure that there is no more. For example, we have a robotic vacuum that roams the house like a drunken goat, till it docks into its port. After each run, the canister there...

Topcon Unirex I first learned about the Topcon name in the early ’70s. Topcon and Nikon’s optical comparators were used in the tool shop to follow complex shapes.  Nikon had been a well-known brand, Topcon not so. Fast forward twenty years, fate brought theodolites my way, Topcon again. It took another twenty years for me to realize that Topcon also...

Topcon R / Beseler Topcon B Topcon R user manual Topcon R current value Topcon B Beseler current value Topcon made an unimpressive camera line from just before the war and ceased making them in the mid-1980s. The same cameras were sold by Beseler in the US, under different names, some similar while others bear no resemblance. The first Topcon...