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Latest revision as of 06:32, 27 November 2022
| photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
| American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
| and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
| Conley |
| external links |
| graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. was founded in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a bicycle company in New York City. The first cameras appeared in their catalogue of 1896. Mr. Folmer developed the first Graflex camera in 1898. The first of these cameras had a troublesome complicated focal plane shutter. In 1904 this was replaced by a focal plane cloth curtain shutter which was simple, reliable and fast. From 1905 to 1926 the company was a division of Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. Then it became Folmer Graflex Corporation.
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| Beside the early folding bed press cameras (left image), high-hooded large format SLRs like the Graflex were used by the press since ca. 1900. scanned by Nesster (Image rights) |
Contents
Cameras
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| older Speed Graphic 5×7 w/o rangefinder, with simple Newton type viewfinder, front with lens in Unicum shutter, focal-plane shutter in the back. image by John Gateley (Image rights) |
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| Speed Graphic 5×7, lens board image by John Gateley (Image rights) |
Folmer & Schwing Co.
Folmer & Schwing Division
- 1A Graflex
- Graflex Series B
- The Auto Graflex Junior
- Home Portrait Graflex
- Press Graflex
- Naturalist Graflex
- Graflex Fingerprint Camera
- Speed Graphic
- Cirkut
Folmer Graflex Corp.
see Graflex
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| photographer A. Leonard at work with a Speed Graphic 5×7 in 1918 scanned by camerawiki (Image rights) |
