Kowa is a Japanese company, which manufactured cameras from 1954 to 1978. It continued to make binoculars and telescopes (among much else), and in 2005 marketed a "spotting scope" with integrated digital camera, thereby again becoming a camera manufacturer of a sort. Kowa made a few Prominar interchangeable lenses, to mount on cameras made by other makers. The lenses directly sold by Kowa, released in mid 1957, were the 35mm f/2.8 and 100mm f/2 in Leica screw mount, and the 200mm f/2.8, initially for Leica or Exakta, and later for other SLR cameras. Different lenses were supplied to Allied Impex to mount on the Miranda SLR cameras. Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your coun