Sinar

Sinar Photography AG
IndustryPhotography
HeadquartersZürich, Switzerland
ProductsLarge format view cameras, lenses, digital backs, RAW processing software
Websitesinar.swiss/en/ Edit this at Wikidata

Sinar Photography AG is a Swiss company based in Zürich manufacturing specialized high-resolution view cameras for studio, reproduction, landscape and architecture photography.

Sinar's view-cameras allow both the lens and the film back or sensor back to move in rotation or linearly in any direction (up/down, left/right, front back linearly, and pitch yaw tilt rotations), thus allowing precise image alignment corrections. The cameras are thus often used in advertising, document reproduction, product and architectural photography, where correctly vertical image lines, fine focus accuracy, and extra details are wanted.

The name SINAR is explained by the company itself as "Still, Industrial, Nature, Architectural and Reproduction photography" in the English version of the April 2011 press release.[1] Other versions of the names were also used, with the S for studio, Sache, or science. In the Indonesian language, Sinar translates into English as "light ray".

  1. ^ "Sinar Photography AG Acquires the Brand Rights of Sinar AG" (Press release). Zürich: Sinar Photography AG. April 2011. Archived from the original on 20 April 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2023.