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− | '''Boyer''' was a French optical company based in Paris. It was founded in | + | '''Boyer''' was a French optical company based in Paris. It was founded in 1895 by Antoine Boyer, then sold in 1925 to André Levy (1890-1965), a former sales manager at the [[Berthiot|Lacour-Berthiot]] company. His wife, Suzanne Lévy-Bloch (1894-1974), was a brilliant mathematician and optician, graduated from the École Supérieure d'Optique where she was a student of Henri Chrétien. From 1925 until her husband's death in 1965 she was the chief designer of the Boyer lenses. After bankruptcy at the beginning of the 1970s, the factory was bought out by M. Kiritsis, the former owner of the [[Roussel]] optical company. It lasted a decade more with reduced workforce and production, then definitively closed in 1982. |
Some names that were used on Boyer lenses: | Some names that were used on Boyer lenses: |
Revision as of 14:26, 17 May 2009
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AFR | Alsaphot | André and Lieutier | Angénieux | Arca Swiss | As de Trèfle | Atoms | Aubertin | Balcar | Bardin | Bauchet | Baudry | Bellieni | Berthiot | Boumsell | Boyer | Bronzavia | Cindo | Cord | Cornu | Coronet | Darlot | Demaria-Lapierre | Derogy | Faller | FAP | Fex | Français | Compagnie Française de Photographie | Gallus | Gaumont | Georges Paris | Girard | Gitzo | Goldstein | Héard & Mallinjod | Hermagis | Idam | Itier | Jousset | Joux | Kafta | Kinax | Kodak Pathé | Krauss | Lumière | Lund | Mackenstein | Manufrance | MAPED | Mazo | MFAP | MIOM | Mollier | Mundus | Olbia | Omega | OPL | Pierrat | Richard | Richard (Jules) | Roussel | Royer | SEM | Secam | SIAP | Soulé | Spirotechnique | Tiranty | Vergne | Zion (France) |
Boyer was a French optical company based in Paris. It was founded in 1895 by Antoine Boyer, then sold in 1925 to André Levy (1890-1965), a former sales manager at the Lacour-Berthiot company. His wife, Suzanne Lévy-Bloch (1894-1974), was a brilliant mathematician and optician, graduated from the École Supérieure d'Optique where she was a student of Henri Chrétien. From 1925 until her husband's death in 1965 she was the chief designer of the Boyer lenses. After bankruptcy at the beginning of the 1970s, the factory was bought out by M. Kiritsis, the former owner of the Roussel optical company. It lasted a decade more with reduced workforce and production, then definitively closed in 1982.
Some names that were used on Boyer lenses:
- Apo Saphir
- Beryl
- Perle
- Saphir
- Topaz
- Zircon
Links
In French:
- Optiques Boyer: Une brève histoire de l'entreprise et un catalogue (incomplet) des objectifs produits by D. Fromm and E. Beltrano at www.galerie-photo.com
In English: