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was a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese 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....
 manufacturer. Kodak took a majority stake in the company in 1997, and made it a fully-owned subsidiary of Kodak Japan, , in 2004 . As a subsidiary, it continues to develop digital camera
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....
 models.

They manufactured many cameras, such as the CG-5 which was one of the first cameras ever to use an Auto Focus lens, which had to be bought separately.






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was a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese 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....
 manufacturer. Kodak took a majority stake in the company in 1997, and made it a fully-owned subsidiary of Kodak Japan, , in 2004 . As a subsidiary, it continues to develop digital camera
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....
 models.

They manufactured many cameras, such as the CG-5 which was one of the first cameras ever to use an Auto Focus lens, which had to be bought separately. The lenses are now rare and difficult to come by. They were cumbersome and had two infra-red "eyes" on the top. They would connect by a bayonet fitting similar to the Pentax K fitting except they also had electrical contacts which would power the motor at the press of the shutter release button. Most of Chinon's cameras used the Pentax K mount
Pentax K mount

The Pentax K mount, sometimes referred to as the "PK mount", is a lens mount standard for mounting interchangeable photographic lenses to 135 film single-lens reflex cameras....
, which was promoted by Pentax as a universal mount, and therefore allowed, and encouraged other manufacturers to utilize their mount.

Chinon also was a manufacturer of CD-ROM drives, scanners, electronic pocket calculators, and floppy disk drives. They even dabbled in VR with Cybershades for your PC, launched in the US market in 1995 for $199.

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