Adox
Adox was a German company, also called Dr C. Schleussner Fotowerke GmbH, whose main activity was photo chemistry, film and B&W paper sold under the Adox brand name. They produced some camera models from the 1930s to the early 1960s, the most advanced being the Adox 300 with interchangeable film magazines. In 1938 Adox took over the camera factory of Wirgin when the Wirgin brothers had to leave Germany to escape from persecution by the German regime of that time. After WWII Henry Wirgin bought it back. The Schleussner company was taken over by Dupont, and in 1972 some of the film making machines were sold to the Yugoslavian company Fotokemia along with the rights to continue manufacture of Adox films under license using the original formulae. When the license agreement expired in the aerly 90's so did the rights to use the Adox brand name and the films were sold under the name efke. More recently the German Distributor Fotoimpex in Berlin got the rights for the brand name Adox and uses it for a variety of products including efke films and papers.
Contents
35mm film
- Adrette, name variant of the Wirgin Edinex
- Adox 300
- Adox 500, prototypes
- Golf I
- Golf IA
- Golf IIA
- Golf IIIA
- Polo 1S
- Polomat
- Polomatic
120 film
6x6 folding
6x6 / 6x4.5 folding
6x9 folding
- Adox Sport (6x9 + 6x4.5)
- Start
6x6 box
- Adox 66
- Adox Blitz
127 film
Special film
- Juka 3x4 on Juka film
Links
- history on adox.de
- Adox page at ukcamera.com
- Adox page at Gérard Langlois site
- Some Adox cameras at Alan McPherson's site
- Adox cameras at Sylvain Halgand's site
- Adox company story, in German, from a 1958 book
- Adox page at Collection G. Even's site
- small Adox section at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
- Adox camera's in Andrys Stienstra's camera collection