Filotecnica Salmoiraghi

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Photography supply industry in Milano, Italia
Bencini | Boniforti and Ballerio | Cappelli | Nuova Closter | Ferrania | Filma | Filotecnica Salmoiraghi | GGS | G.P.M. | Industria Scientifica Ottica | Koristka | Lamperti and Garbagnati | Murer & Duroni | Officine Galileo

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)
  • Venus (or perhaps Gioia)[3] (another name for the rebadged Metharette)

Lenses

  • Phoebus
  • Sirius
  • Venus
  • Orion
  • Lyra
  • Arthur
  • Phos
  • Regulus
  • Beta[4]

Notes

  1. Salmoiraghi at Storia della Fotografia (archived).
  2. 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)
  3. The page on Salmoiraghi at Dario Mondonico's mistermondo site shows a number of cameras. What is plainly a rebadged Metharette was previously listed as the Gioia, but is now named the Venus. Its lens is certainly a Venus.
  4. Rectaflex Junior with a Salmoiraghi 5 cm f/3.5 Beta, sold at the 24th Camera Auction by Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2013.


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