Flexaret I (Bradac brothers, later Optikotechna).Flexette (Bradac brothers, later Optikotechna).Optiflex (Luxurious model, Optikotechna, later Meopta). Autoflex (Bradac brothers, later Optikotechna).After a period of collaboration with the US company TCI (originally Tyrolit Company, Inc.), makers of optical glass and glass components, TCI became first distributors of Meopta goods in the US, and finally became Meopta USA. After the fall of communism, it was privatized in 1992. In 1946 the company was nationalized and renamed Meopta. The first camera was produced in 1939, the Flexette, a 6×6 TLR that was the startoff for what was to become a long line of TLRs. During the war, all sorts of optical equipment was being produced for the German military, since the factory found itself in the occupied zone. It started producing enlargers and darkroom equipment and even its own lenses. Optikotechna used facilities bought from the failing Bradac brothers' company, and the Bradacs themselves worked as designers for Optikotechna and Meopta. The company was founded as Optikotechna in 1933 in Prerov, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The company still makes telescopes, binoculars and microscopes, as well as optical systems for industrial, medical, aeronautical and military uses. Meopta is a Czech-based manufacturer of optical goods, which previously included still and movie cameras, darkroom equipment and projectors. 1.3.1 Interchangeable lens (viewfinder/rangefinder).
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