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| − | Dr. Rodehüser founded '''Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau''', a German company based in Heessen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. Widely known are the '''Panta''' [[viewfinder camera]]s for [[rollfilm]], solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser refounded | + | Dr. Rodehüser founded '''Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau''', a German company based in Heessen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. Widely known are the '''Panta''' [[viewfinder camera]]s for [[rollfilm]], solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser fled to Brazil and his consultant Heinrich Otterbach refounded the company as Westfaelische Apparate Bau and produced the Narvax [[35mm]] cameras. Financing the new company was based on an act of fraud. Rodehüser and his consultant had misused the postwar credit program of the government to found a KG (commanditist company) which was not able to survive with the simple cameras that it had produced. At the end both had consumed 750.000 D-Mark state money for their experiment and ended in jail. |
==Cameras== | ==Cameras== | ||
*[[Panta]] | *[[Panta]] | ||
| + | *Narvax | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 18 August 2011
Dr. Rodehüser founded Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau, a German company based in Heessen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. Widely known are the Panta viewfinder cameras for rollfilm, solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser fled to Brazil and his consultant Heinrich Otterbach refounded the company as Westfaelische Apparate Bau and produced the Narvax 35mm cameras. Financing the new company was based on an act of fraud. Rodehüser and his consultant had misused the postwar credit program of the government to found a KG (commanditist company) which was not able to survive with the simple cameras that it had produced. At the end both had consumed 750.000 D-Mark state money for their experiment and ended in jail.
Cameras
- Panta
- Narvax
Links
- Swindle and economic disaster around the Dr. Rodehüser factory in Spiegel Archiv [1]
