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+ | The '''Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co.''' was founded in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a bicycle company in New York City. The first cameras appeared in their catalogue of 1896. Mr. Folmer developed the first [[Graflex]] camera in 1898. The first of these cameras had a troublesome complicated focal plane shutter. In 1904 this was replaced by a focal plane cloth curtain shutter which was simple, reliable and fast. From 1905 to 1926 the company was a division of [[Kodak|Eastman Kodak]] in Rochester, New York. Then it became [[Graflex|Folmer Graflex Corporation]]. | ||
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Revision as of 14:40, 30 January 2021
photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
Conley |
external links |
graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
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Company
The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. was founded in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a bicycle company in New York City. The first cameras appeared in their catalogue of 1896. Mr. Folmer developed the first Graflex camera in 1898. The first of these cameras had a troublesome complicated focal plane shutter. In 1904 this was replaced by a focal plane cloth curtain shutter which was simple, reliable and fast. From 1905 to 1926 the company was a division of Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. Then it became Folmer Graflex Corporation.
Speed Graphic 5×7, front with lens in Unicum shutter image by John Gateley (Image rights) |
Beside the archetypical folding bed variant of press cameras (left image), high-hooded large format SLR cameras like the Graflex were used by the press scanned by Nesster (Image rights) |
Cameras
Folmer & Schwing Co.
Folmer & Schwing Division
- 1A Graflex
- Graflex Series B
- The Auto Graflex Junior
- Home Portrait Graflex
- Press Graflex
- Naturalist Graflex
- Graflex Fingerprint Camera
- Speed Graphic
Folmer Graflex Corp.
see Graflex