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    FILM STARS Poor man’s Leica

    Apr 27, 2021 4 minutes

    Back in the 1950s, if you were after the Leica experience but without the Leica price, the Diax range of cameras was worth considering and the Diax IIb was the best of the lot. Today, with Leica film cameras still demanding high prices on the second-hand market, the story is much the same. Whether you are a collector or a user in search of a poor man’s Leica, Diax cameras and their accessories are worth checking out.

    The first cameras

    Diax cameras were made by Walter Voss, one of the more enterprising of the post-World War II German camera manufacturers. As the war ended in 1945, he established Walter Voss Photokamera-Fabrikation & Feinmechanik initially to produce photographic accessories. His first camera hit the market in 1947.

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