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NEW AMERICAN MINIATURE IN PRODUCTION

CAMERAWISE, sight: on the near horizon disclose a new 35mm camera of consider-
able interest to miniature camera enthusiasts. The specific news is that the Premier
Instrument Corp., of 52 West Houston Street, New York City, has announced its
forthcoming Kardon camera, which undoubtedly will arouse considerable discussion.

Behind the news is a significant stery that goes back to war days when, in 1944,
E. Leitz ond Company, original distributors in this country of the German Leica, wos
awarded o prime contract to moke Leica comeras for the U. 5. Army Signal Corps.
Leitz searched for and wide for subcontractors to undertake the job without success.
Manufacturers shied away. Reason? Specifications called for American manufacture
of one of Germany's finest and most highly publicized cameras, and everyone said
it couldn’! be done. .

Peter Kardon, adventurous president of the Premier Instrument Company, go! wind
of the situation and up went his dander. Who said the U.S.A. couldn't moke ao
Leica? Kardon accepted the challenge with the assertion that not only could he moke
oa leica as good as the German species, but he would moke a better one. He took
the contract and got to work. By war's end he had completed the first camera.

VJ Day terminated Premier's sub-cortract with Leitz, leaving the company with a
big investment in dies and machinery. Pete Kardon had accepted a challenge. He hod
made on American Leica, which he believed to be a better camera in many respects
then the German original. Whether he hos or not time and experience will tell. In