Burke & James
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| Burke & James 8x10 commercial view camera with grey paint removed showing maple wood. image by J. Golden (Image rights) |
Burke & James Inc. of Chicago was a camera manufacturer and importer of cameras and lenses. The company was established in 1897 by founders Henry Burke and David James. Products were sold via store front as well as mail order. It designed and manufactured view cameras, fingerprint cameras, portrait cameras, cine cameras, graphic arts equipment, lenses, darkroom sinks and other things. Many of its own products seem to have got one of the additional brand names Rexo, Watson and Ingento.
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| Burke & James 4x5 Speed Press image by PhotoShop Guru (Image rights) |
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| Orbit 5x7 monorail camera image by Christopher Ness (Image rights) |
Products
Cameras
- Commercial View Camera 4x5
- Commercial View Camera 8x10
- Commercial View Camera 8x20
- Commercial View Camera 11x14
- Grover 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10
- Burke & James "Ingento" Studio Camera
- Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera
- No. 0 Folding Ingento
- Orbit 4x5 and 5x7
- Panoram 120 - four 7 × 2 ¼" on 120 roll film
- Panoram 120 Mark II - with focus mount
- Panoram 120 Mark III - f/6.8 Goerz Dangor lens
- Rembrandt - 5x7 Portrait Camera
- Rexo series - rollfilm cameras
- Rexoette - rollfilm box cameras
- Saturn 75
- Burke & James 4x5 Speed Press
- Watson 2 ¼ × 3 ¼ Press camera
- Watson 4x5 Press camera
- Watson Holmes - fingerprint camera, 2 ¼ × 3 ¼"
Enlargers
- Solar 120
- Solar 45C
- Solar 45DR
- Solar 57
- Solar 57HC
- Solar Autofocus
- Solar Auto 66
- Solarmatic 160
Other products
- Burke & James Universal Camera (a hand-cranked 35 mm cine camera, 1918)[1]
- Burke & James Ingento Sure Shot flashlamp
- Burke & James The "Ideal" Flash Gun
- Burke & James Rexo accessories
- Essenkay Color Film Adaptor (for using 828 film in 120 cameras)
Notes
- ↑ Burke & James Universal Camera serial no. 38, painted in army green, sold at the 22nd Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 24 November 2012.
Links
- Graflex copies made by Burke and James at Jo Lommen's
- partial company history by former vice president of the company at Jo Lommen's
- Flickr group Burke & James
- Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera at Wooden Field Cameras of the United States
- Burke & James at Sylvain Halgand's Collection Appareils (in French)
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