This photo of my photoalbum was taken in Tokyo.

Tokyo Kogaku produced cameras, beginning with a 6×4.5 cm medium format model in 1937. A 127 film camera followed the next year. After the war, the Primoflex I twin-lens reflex camera came out in 1951. The Topcon 35A was born in 1953. In 1960, the company produced a 6x9 press camera on order from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. It initially used a Mamiya lens; civilian models became available with Topcon lenses. With the 35 mm Topcon RE Super of 1963, the company pioneered full-aperture metering. Tokyo Kogaku continued to innovate until leaving that line of business in 1981. About 1965 the US Navy tested cameras from several Japanese and German manufacturers (including Nikon's F). The Topcon Super D was the winner of this competition and served in the Navy until the very end of Topcon production in 1977. In 2003, Cosina released a photographic lens bearing the Topcon brand.

Sinar AG is a Swiss company producing innovative medium format and large format cameras. The Swiss photographer Carl Hans Koch invented the Sinar camera in 1947. His main aim was to produce a large format camera of high precision and simple operation, with a system of parts that were readily interchangeable. Made in Feuerthalen (Switzerland, north of Zurich), Sinar cameras have built their reputation amongst studio, architectural and landscape photographers by providing time-saving solutions—like lens-independent automatic self-cocking shutters with built-in apertures, and film plane metering—major advances in their time. More recently Sinar have promoted the use of digital backs—from a shaky start in the early 1990s with an immature technology, most commercial studios now see the advantage of high resolution digital capture (albeit at medium format sizes). In 2006, they also took over the distribution of Rollei (also known as Rolleiflex) cameras world-wide.