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− | '''Salmoiraghi''' (Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi S.A.) was an optical company in Milan. According to ''Storia della Fotografia'', the firm began as a laboratory/workshop making very limited numbers of experimental instruments, started by scientist and inventor Ignazio Porro.<ref>[http://www.storiadellafotografia.it/2012/04/30/filotecnica-salmoiraghi/ Filotecnica Salmoiraghi] at [http://www.storiadellafotografia.it/ Storia della Fotografia].</ref> Alessandro Duroni (later of [[Murer & Duroni]]) was involved in the establishment. Angelo Salmoiraghi joined Porro after Duroni died, and re-ordered the establishment as a more commercial venture when Porro himself died in 1875. The company made navigational, surveying, astronomical and other instruments,<ref>Examples (all offered for sale at Ebay in February 2015): | + | '''Salmoiraghi''' (Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi S.A.) was an optical company in Milan. According to ''Storia della Fotografia'', the firm began as a laboratory/workshop making very limited numbers of experimental instruments, started by scientist and inventor Ignazio Porro.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120517011800/http://www.storiadellafotografia.it/2012/04/30/filotecnica-salmoiraghi/Filotecnica Salmoiraghi] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120319003920/http://www.storiadellafotografia.it/ Storia della Fotografia] (archived).</ref> Alessandro Duroni (later of [[Murer & Duroni]]) was involved in the establishment. Angelo Salmoiraghi joined Porro after Duroni died, and re-ordered the establishment as a more commercial venture when Porro himself died in 1875. The company made navigational, surveying, astronomical and other instruments,<ref>Examples (all offered for sale at Ebay in February 2015): |
* Opera glasses (item 171668603364) | * Opera glasses (item 171668603364) | ||
*A fleximeter (for measuring the bending of structural elements under load; item 261773731896) | *A fleximeter (for measuring the bending of structural elements under load; item 261773731896) |
Revision as of 10:28, 16 August 2018
Salmoiraghi (Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi S.A.) was an optical company in Milan. According to Storia della Fotografia, the firm began as a laboratory/workshop making very limited numbers of experimental instruments, started by scientist and inventor Ignazio Porro.[1] Alessandro Duroni (later of Murer & Duroni) was involved in the establishment. Angelo Salmoiraghi joined Porro after Duroni died, and re-ordered the establishment as a more commercial venture when Porro himself died in 1875. The company made navigational, surveying, astronomical and other instruments,[2] and increasingly, photographic optics, including an aerial camera for military use in the First World War. Salmoiraghi died in 1939; the company name remains in the Italian retail opticians Salmoiraghi & Vigano.
Cameras
- Argo (9x12 cm)
- Roka
- Nova (models for 120 and for 127 film; the 127 camera may be a rebadged Merkel Metharette)
- Gioia[3] (another name for the rebadged Metharette)
Lenses
- Phoebus
- Sirius
- Venus
- Orion
- Lyra
- Arthur
- Phos
- Regulus
- Beta[4]
Notes
- ↑ Salmoiraghi at Storia della Fotografia (archived).
- ↑ Examples (all offered for sale at Ebay in February 2015):
- Opera glasses (item 171668603364)
- A fleximeter (for measuring the bending of structural elements under load; item 261773731896)
- A theodolite (item 201274043495)
- A set of drawing compasses (item 261773778024)
- ↑ Gioia at Dario Mondonico's mistermondo site.
- ↑ Rectaflex with a Salmoiraghi 5 cm f/3.5 Beta, sold at the 24th Camera Auction by Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2013.
Links
- Filotecnica Glunz mod. 30 at Fotocamere Italiane (Japanese)