Alsaphot
Alsaphot is a French company which produced various camera models from 1949 to 1970[1]. It depended from the company Société Alsacienne d'Etudes et d'Exploitation, Alsetex[2], that still exists today (2006) as SAE Alsetex[3].
The company began the 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 past the preseries level. 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 its activity.
Notes
- ↑ Dates: Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
- ↑ Dates: Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
- ↑ See its current presentation page
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
Bibliography
- Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1.
Links
In French:
- Alsaphot page at Collection G. Even's site
- Alsaphot page at Sylvain Halgand's Collection
- Alsaphot page at Photoptic
- Site about Alsaphot by Jacques Labarre
- Alsaphot page at Gérard Langlois' site
- 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)
