Braun GmbH
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| Automatic flash Braun 2000/40VCR image by Bernard Faure (Image rights) |
The renowned German brand of modernist appliances, consumer electronics, and shavers Braun is not related to the Bavarian Carl Braun Camera-Werk known for their Paxette 35mm models. Rather, Braun GmbH has a connection to photography largely through its electronic flash units, many of which originally carried the model name Hobby.
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| 1956 Braun electronic flash image by camerawiki (Image rights) |
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| The "Hobby" branding c.1980s image by Arne Kuilman (Image rights) |
The Braun name also appeared alongside Nizo on a number of Super-8 cine cameras. Braun made some slide projectors, which should not be confused with the Carl Braun Paximat series. In the 1970s, "Braun North America A Division of The Gillette Company" distributed a series of camera lenses[1] sourced from a Japanese supplier, bearing the familiar tall-A Braun logo. These lenses are uncommon enough to suggest the venture did not last.
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| Braun Nizo 4056 Super-8 cine camera image by Mark Robertson (Image rights) |
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| Braun D35 slide projector image by Johannes Hromadka (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ These are listed in a January, 1976, Popular Photography ad (Vol. 78, No. 1; pages 42–43).
