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'''Boyer''' was a French optical company based in Paris.
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'''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 brands that were used on Boyer lenses:
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Nearly all of Boyer's lenses were named after jewels:
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* Apo Saphir
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* Beryl
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* Corail
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* Emeraude
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* Jade
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* Onyx
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* Opale
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* Perle
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* Rubis
 
* Saphir
 
* Saphir
 
* Topaz
 
* Topaz
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* Zircon
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Some of Boyer's trade names, and especially Saphir, were applied to more than one design type.
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The Boyer name also appears on the lenses of the [[Photax]] camera from [[MIOM]], with lenses branded "Serie VIII" or "Rexar."
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== Links ==
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In French:
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* [http://www.galerie-photo.com/boyer-optique-objectif.html Optiques Boyer: Une brève histoire de l'entreprise et un catalogue (incomplet) des objectifs produits] by D. Fromm and E. Beltrando at [http://www.galerie-photo.com www.galerie-photo.com]
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In English:
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* [http://www.galerie-photo.com/boyer-lens-optic.html Optiques Boyer: A short history of the company with an incomplete catalog of its lenses by D. Fromm and E. Beltrando at [http://www.galerie-photo.com www.galerie-photo.com]
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Latest revision as of 11:44, 3 February 2019

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.

Nearly all of Boyer's lenses were named after jewels:

  • Apo Saphir
  • Beryl
  • Corail
  • Emeraude
  • Jade
  • Onyx
  • Opale
  • Perle
  • Rubis
  • Saphir
  • Topaz
  • Zircon

Some of Boyer's trade names, and especially Saphir, were applied to more than one design type.

The Boyer name also appears on the lenses of the Photax camera from MIOM, with lenses branded "Serie VIII" or "Rexar."

French   (edit)
companies
 
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