DF85Oh... Well that seriously undermines their name. All I really know them for is their U47 tube condenser mic (which you'd absolutely never get fully return from as an investment, especially when there's nothing so much magically better than plenty of mics at even a 10th of the price).
Typhoon859They probably are some garbage. Someone paid a fee to use the name. Telefunken is like.. here we go.. funai, finlux, grundig, akai, aiwa, kodak, polaroid and other dead companies with living names.
gluonPolaroid is actually alive in a useful way—The Impossible Project, the Dutch company which bought Polaroid's production equipment and leased their former factory in Enschede in 2008 and went on to reverse engineer new instant films, their largest shareholder actually bought Polaroid brand name and all of their associated IP. Not the original owners, sure, but a closely tied heritage, and now The Impossible Project's film and cameras are being marketed under the Polaroid Originals brand name and not being made by some nameless Chinese state-owned conglomerate.