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The company began camera production with some inexpensive medium format models, like the Dauphin pseudo TLR and the D'Assas 6×6 viewfinder camera. It later developed three advanced and original models: the [[Alsaphot Bioflex|Bioflex]] TLR, the [[Cyclope]] 6×9 camera with folded light path, and the Alsaflex, a 24×24 SLR camera that did not go into production. It also took over the production of the Memox 24×24 camera from the [[SIAP]] company, and extrapolated a 24×36 model. After these interesting cameras, the company made a series of unremarkable 35mm viewfinder cameras called the Maine before stopping camera production. | The company began camera production with some inexpensive medium format models, like the Dauphin pseudo TLR and the D'Assas 6×6 viewfinder camera. It later developed three advanced and original models: the [[Alsaphot Bioflex|Bioflex]] TLR, the [[Cyclope]] 6×9 camera with folded light path, and the Alsaflex, a 24×24 SLR camera that did not go into production. It also took over the production of the Memox 24×24 camera from the [[SIAP]] company, and extrapolated a 24×36 model. After these interesting cameras, the company made a series of unremarkable 35mm viewfinder cameras called the Maine before stopping camera production. | ||
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Alsaphot is a French company that produced various camera models from 1949 to 1970.[1] It was a dependent of the company Société Alsacienne d'Etudes et d'Exploitation (or Alsetex), which still exists today (2006) as "SAE Alsetex".[2] Its full name is said to be "Société Alsacienne d'Optique et de Photographie"[3] (meaning "Alsatian Society of Optics and Photography"), and the logo of the society is a stork holding an ALSAPHOT pennant in its beak, the stork being a symbol of Alsace (a French region). However the addresses appearing in Alsaphot advertisements are located in Paris, and one of the company's factories was in Angers.[4]
The company began camera production with some inexpensive medium format models, like the Dauphin pseudo TLR and the D'Assas 6×6 viewfinder camera. It later developed three advanced and original models: the Bioflex TLR, the Cyclope 6×9 camera with folded light path, and the Alsaflex, a 24×24 SLR camera that did not go into production. It also took over the production of the Memox 24×24 camera from the SIAP company, and extrapolated a 24×36 model. After these interesting cameras, the company made a series of unremarkable 35mm viewfinder cameras called the Maine before stopping camera production.
120 film
4.5×6 viewfinder
- Cima
6×6 viewfinder
- Ajax
- Cady
- D'Assas
- D'Assas-Lux
- D'Assas 3
- Norlin
6×6 TLR
6×6 pseudo TLR
- Dauphin I, II, III
6×9 viewfinder
35mm film
24×24 SLR
- Alsaflex
24×24 viewfinder
- Memox 24×24
24×36 viewfinder
- Memox 24×36
- Doubs
- Maine I
- Maine Is
- Maine IIc
- Maine IIIa
Notes
- ↑ Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
- ↑ Relationship with Alsetex: Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004). See Alsetex's current presentation page.
- ↑ Alsaphot page of Gérard Langlois' site.
- ↑ See the Alsaphot page at Photoptic for the Paris addresses: 177, rue de Courcelles (17e) in 1951, 63, avenue de Villiers (17e) in 1954, and 7, rue du Général Foy (8e). The three are very close together. Angers factory: Alsaphot site of Jacques Labarre, and Cyclope page of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
Bibliography
- Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1. Pp. 86–90.
Links
In French:
- Alsaphot page at Photoptic, showing both cameras and advertisements
- Site about Alsaphot by Jacques Labarre
- Alsaphot page at Collection G. Even's site
- Alsaphot page at Sylvain Halgand's Collection
- Alsaphot page at Gérard Langlois' site
- Alsaphot page at ClicClac (Jacques Charrat's collection)
- Alsaphot D'Assas 3 at Amaryllis
- Alsaphot history, Cyclope and SIAP Memo 24×36 at the Fex-Indo website, currently offline (the links point to the web archive version dated Oct 12, 2004)