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'''Bolsey''' was an American manufacturer founded in 1947 by Jacques Bogopolsky, who was born in Ukraine and had emigrated to Switzerland. He had already designed the Bolec camera in 1927, that would be produced as the [[Bolex]] after the rights were sold to [[Paillard]], and the Bolca Reflex 35mm SLR in 1938, that would be produced as the [[Alpa]] after the rights were sold to the Swiss company [[Pignons]].
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'''Bolsey''' was an American company founded in 1947 by [[Jacques Bolsey]], who had already designed cine and still cameras. The company designed small 35mm rangefinder and TLR cameras, then a subminiature using 8mm film. It disappeared at the beginning of the 1960s.
He moved to the United States at the beginning of World War II and founded the new Bolsey company in 1947 to produce small 35mm fixed lens rangefinders. The company disappeared at the beginning of the 1960s.
 
  
 
=== 35mm rangefinder ===
 
=== 35mm rangefinder ===
* [[Bolsey B]]
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* [[Bolsey B]] (1947-1949)
* [[Bolsey B2]]
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* [[Bolsey B2]] (1949-1956)
* [[Bolsey B22]]
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* [[Bolsey B22]] (1953-1956)
* [[Bolsey Jubilee]]
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* [[Bolsey Jubilee]] (1955-1956)
* [[Bolsey B3]]
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* [[Bolsey B3]] (1956)
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* [[Wittnauer Festival]] (1957), sold by [[Wittnauer]]
  
 
=== 35mm TLR + rangefinder ===
 
=== 35mm TLR + rangefinder ===
* Bolsey C
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* [[Bolsey C]] (1950-1956)
* Bolsey C2
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* [[Bolsey C22]] (1953-1956)
* Bolsey C22
 
  
 
=== 35mm viewfinder ===
 
=== 35mm viewfinder ===
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=== 120 pseudo-TLR ===
 
=== 120 pseudo-TLR ===
 
* Bolsey Flex
 
* Bolsey Flex
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== Bibliography ==
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* ''Bolsey, the man behind the camera'', by Richard Sanford, home edition
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==

Revision as of 20:06, 9 March 2006

Bolsey was an American company founded in 1947 by Jacques Bolsey, who had already designed cine and still cameras. The company designed small 35mm rangefinder and TLR cameras, then a subminiature using 8mm film. It disappeared at the beginning of the 1960s.

35mm rangefinder

35mm TLR + rangefinder

35mm viewfinder

  • Bolsey A
  • LaBelle Pal
  • Bolsey Explorer (made by Braun)

8mm subminiature

  • Bolsey 8
  • Bolsey Uniset 8

120 pseudo-TLR

  • Bolsey Flex

Bibliography

  • Bolsey, the man behind the camera, by Richard Sanford, home edition

Links