Alsaphot

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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

  1. Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
  2. Relationship with Alsetex: Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004). See Alsetex's current presentation page.
  3. Alsaphot page of Gérard Langlois' site.
  4. 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.

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