Camera and Lens Reviews — Switar

What would you get if a high end Swiss precision watch maker suddenly decided to design and build a reflex camera? Well back in 1939 Pignons S.A. asked that very question and jumped head first into the emerging 35mm film camera market. With that they went on a 50 year journey that ended with the same amount of camera bodies that could be produced today in a factory over the course of a few weeks and bankruptcy.     Alpa cameras are an anomaly in the film camera world. Extremely well built with hundreds of individually hand crafted and hand...