Tamron statement of termination of Bronica camera business and seven years of support (October 2005).Bronica Users Group (BUG) at the Yahoo Groups site.
#BRONICA SQ LENSES PROFESSIONAL#
Secondhand Zenza Bronica cameras are still widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers, in no small part due to the superior image quality of medium format film over smaller film and digital sensor formats. The last Bronica camera, the RF645, was dropped in October 2005. The Zenza Bronica GS-1 was discontinued in 2002, and the last Zenza Bronica SLR cameras ( SQ, ETR) were discontinued in October 2004. Tamron, a large Japanese lens manufacturer and a supplier of lens elements, eventually acquired Zenza Bronica Ltd. A rangefinder model, the RF645 in 4.5×6cm format, was also introduced in 2000. Bronica cameras were mainstays of wedding and portrait photographers for many years, and their relative affordability made them popular with amateur photographers as well.Īs the company expanded, Zenza Bronica would later introduce lenses of its own design, along with continued refinements and new models of the Zenza Bronica SLR, in different rollfilm formats. Zenza Bronica SLR cameras employ a modular design: the major components of the camera - lens, body, film back, and viewfinder - are separate and interchangeable. With its superb, precision-ground Nikkor lenses, the first Bronica became an instant success. Because Yoshino had invested nearly all company resources into production of the camera body, he sourced the Bronica's lenses from an established Japanese optics and camera manufacturer - none other than Nikon (Nippon Kōgaku Kikai). Zenza Bronica cameras first appeared in 1958, when its founder, Zenzaburo Yoshino, introduced a camera of his own design, the Zenza Bronica Z, at the Philadelphia Camera Show.
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