Filotecnica Salmoiraghi
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 and astronomical instruments, 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.
Storia della Fotografica lists a number of cameras and lenses made by Salmoiraghi:
Cameras
- Argo (9x12 cm)
- Roka
- Nova (models for 120 and for 127 film)
Lenses
- Phoebus
- Sirius
- Venus
- Orion
- Lyra
- Arthur
- Phos
- Regulus
