Sans & Streiffe was a US distributor based in Chicago.^[1] It sold microscopes, binoculars, slide rules and various other products; at least some of them were imported from Japan.^[2] It seems that the company disappeared in the 1960s.^[1]

Lenses Edit

Sans & Streiffe sold at least two lenses under its own brand:

• Sans & Streiffe 3.5cm f/3.5 in Leica screw mount, name version of the Zeika Rojar 3.5cm f/3.5
• Sans & Streiffe Telephoto 10.5cm f/2.8 in Exakta mount^[3]

Notes Edit

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Sans & Streiffe at Greg's Slide Rules.
2. ↑ Sans & Streiffe binoculars, microscopes, etc. appear in online auctions. See also Sans & Streiffe at Greg's Slide Rules.
3. ↑ See this page at Kawamura Kazuma's website. The name "Telephoto" is reported only, and the text says that the word "JAPAN" appears on the barrel.

Links Edit

In English:

• Some information on Sans & Streiffe at Greg's Slide Rules

In Japanese:

• Sans & Streiffe 10.5cm f/2.8 for Exakta at Kawamura Kazuma's Wagamichi wo iku shashin-dō

Companies of Chicago (Illinois)

Adams & Westlake | American Advertising and Research Co. | Bernard | Burke & James | Busch | Calumet | Candid | Chicago Camera Co. | Chicago Ferrotype Co. | Deardorff | De Vry | Geiss | Herold | Imperial | Kemper | Metropolitan Industries | Montgomery Ward | Pho-Tak | Rolls | Sans & Streiffe | Sears | Seymour | Spartus | The Camera Man | United States Camera Co. | Western Camera Manufacturing Co. | Yale | Zar | Zenith