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| − | * [[Golf IIA]] | + | * [[Adox Golf IIA]] |
| − | * [[Golf IIIA]] | + | * [[Adox Golf IIIA]] |
| − | * [[Adox | + | * [[Adox Polo]] |
| − | * [[Polomat]] | + | * [[Adox Polomat]] |
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== 120 film == | == 120 film == | ||
Revision as of 15:17, 9 May 2012
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| 1954 Golf 63 image by Hans Jan Dürr (Image rights) |
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. The company was founded in 1860; the current Adox website states that this was 'the world's first photochemical factory'.[1] The company produced some cameras 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 early 90's so did the rights to use the Adox brand name and the films were sold under the Efke brand name. More recently the German distributor Fotoimpex in Berlin registered the lapsed Adox brand name and now uses it for a variety of products from a different manufacturers, including films and papers. A firm in Calgary, Alberta, also registered the name Adox for their film company in Canada, but uses the brand name Bluefire for their products. The have allowed Fotoimpex to use the Adox brand in Canada.[2]
Contents
35mm film
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| Golf IA image by indrek indrek (Image rights) |
120 film
6x4.5 folding
- Tempo
6x6 folding
- Golf I, Golf II, Golf IV, Golf 45 S
- Golf 63
6x9 folding
- Adox Sport (6x9 + 6x4.5)
- Adox Start
- Trumpf
6x6 box
- Adox 66
- Adox Blitz
127 film
Special film
- Juka 3x4 on Juka film
Notes
Links
- 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
- Adox camera's in Andrys Stienstra's camera collection
