This photo of my photoalbum was taken in Okinawa.
Bronica or Zenza Bronica (ゼンザブロニカ, Bronica or Zenza Bronica ?) was a Japanese brand of professional medium format roll-film cameras, including rangefinder and single-lens reflex models. Bronica cameras first appeared in 1958, when its founder, Zenzaburo Yoshino, introduced a camera of his own design, the Bronica Z rollfilm camera, at the Philadelphia Camera Show. The Bronica Z and successor Bronicas, utilizing large-coverage, high-quality Nikon Kogaku Kikai (Nikkor) lenses, became an instant success. Bronica later introduced lenses of its own manufacture with its later camera designs. Zenza Bronica Ltd. was eventually acquired by the large lens manufacturing concern Tamron. Zenzaburo Yoshino died in 1988. Their single-lens reflex models (SQ, ETR and GS) were discontinued in October 2004, and their last model, the RF645 rangefinder camera, was discontinued in October 2005. The Bronica had been the workhorse of wedding and portrait photographers for many years. Secondhand Bronica cameras are still widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers, in no small part due to superior image quality of 6x4.5, 6x6 and 6x7cm rollfilm over smaller film and digital sensor formats. Bronica SLR cameras employ a modular design: the major components of the camera—lens, body, film back and viewfinder—are separate and interchangeable.
Lumix is Panasonic's range of digital cameras, from pocket point and shoot models to digital SLRs. Many Lumix models are fitted with Leica lenses, and some are effectively Leica cameras without the brand name and with different exterior styling. Panasonic produces all of Leica's digital cameras in Japan, with the exception of the Leica M8 digital rangefinder and the Digital Modul R, a digital camera back for the Leica R9 SLR.