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by ninjin 1756 days ago
While I greatly dislike the nationalistic undertones in your comment, you are – unlike what some responses claim – not wrong in that the video cameras for the Apollo 11 mission [1] were indeed American and made by Westinghouse [2] and lenses by Fairchild [3]. Not sure how much I would argue that it was “consumer technology” though, at least not at the time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera#Westinghouse_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporat...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Camera_and_Instrumen...

As for the more famous non-video cameras, they were indeed made by Hasselblad [4] (Sweden) and the lenses by Zeiss [5] (West German). I am of course acutely aware of the latter as I shoot Zeiss lenses and prefer their aesthetics to pretty much anything else I have tried, although these days a chunk of them are made by Cosina [6] (Japan). If you want to dig deeper, I liked Hasselblad’s official homepage on the matter [7].

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasselblad

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_AG

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosina

[7]: https://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/history/hasselblad-in...