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Argus is an American maker of camera
Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
s and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the C3
Argus C3

The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
 rangefinder camera, which enjoyed a 27-year production run and became one of the top-selling cameras in history.






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Argus C3
Argus is an American maker of camera
Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
s and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the C3
Argus C3

The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
 rangefinder camera, which enjoyed a 27-year production run and became one of the top-selling cameras in history. The company's Model A was the first low-cost 35 mm camera in the United States. Argus was acquired by Sylvania
Sylvania

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 in 1959 and sold off in 1969, by which time it had ceased camera production (some rebadged cameras continued to be sold under the Argus name through the 1970s). More recently, the Argus brand has been reestablished and is used on a variety of inexpensive digital
Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording digital image via an electronics .Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs....
 cameras made by Argus Camera Company, LLC., located in Inverness, IL.

Current models


Digital
  • DCV-011
  • DCM-098
  • DCM-099
  • DC-1088
  • DC-1500
  • DC-1512E
  • DC-2185
  • DC-3185
  • DC-3190
  • DC-3195
  • DC-3270DV
  • DC-5190
  • DC-5195
  • DC-5340
  • DC-6340


Historic models


A series
  • A (1936-1941)
  • AF (1937-1938)
  • B (1937)
  • A2B (1939-1950)
  • A2F (1939-1941)
  • AA (1940-1942)
  • FA (1950-1951)


C series
  • C (1938-1939)
  • C2 (1938-1942)
  • C3
    Argus C3

    The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
     (1938-1968)
  • 21 (1947-1952)
  • C4 (1951-1957)
  • C44 (1956-1957)
  • C3 Golden Shield
    Argus C3

    The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
     (1958-1966)
  • C3 Matchmatic
    Argus C3

    The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
     (1958-1966)
  • C3 Standard
    Argus C3

    The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
     (1958-1966)
  • C44R (1958-1962)
  • C4R (1958)
  • C33
    Argus C3

    The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format....
     (1938-1968)


Argoflex
  • Argoflex E (1940-1948)
  • Argoflex
  • Argoflex II (1947)
  • Argoflex EM (1948)
  • Argoflex EF (1948-1951)
  • Argoflex Seventy-Five (1949-1958)
  • Seventy-Five (1949-1958)
  • 40 (1950-1954)
  • Argoflex Forty (1950-1954)
  • Super Seventy-Five (1954-1958)
  • 75 (1958-1964)


Autronic
  • Autronic 35 (1960-1962)
  • Autronic C3 (1960-1962)
  • Autronic I (1962-1965)
  • Autronic II (1962-1965)


Other models
  • K (1939-1940)
  • M (1939-1940)
  • A3 (1940-1942)
  • CC (1941-1942)
  • Minca (1947-1948)
  • A5 (1953-1956)
  • A-Four (1953-1956)
  • C-Twenty (1957-1958)


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