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The relationship of C.F. Foth Berlin to C.F.Foth in Danzig (Gdansk) and C.F. Foth & Cie in Paris is not clear at this point in time and requires further research.
 
The relationship of C.F. Foth Berlin to C.F.Foth in Danzig (Gdansk) and C.F. Foth & Cie in Paris is not clear at this point in time and requires further research.
  
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Foth is known to have produced, or distributed binoculars and other optical instruments. produced a number of cameras and lenses from 1926 to 1940<ref>Foth & Co is no longer listed in 1941: Berliner Adreßbuch 1941. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 438.—Some web sources perpertuate a 1943 date without much evidence</ref>. A cute little collectible is the ''[[Derby|Foth Derby]]'', a vest pocket strut folder with [[focal plane shutter]] taking 30x40 mm images.
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Foth is known to have produced, or distributed binoculars and other optical instruments and manufactured a range of cameras and lenses from 1926 to 1940<ref>Foth & Co is no longer listed in 1941: Berliner Adreßbuch 1941. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 438.—Some web sources perpertuate a 1943 date without much evidence</ref>. A cute little collectible is the ''[[Derby|Foth Derby]]'', a vest pocket strut folder with [[focal plane shutter]] taking 30x40 mm images.
  
 
== Cameras ==
 
== Cameras ==

Revision as of 00:50, 26 August 2010

Camera industry in Berlin
Agfa | Amigo | Astro Berlin | Bermpohl | Bopp | B+W | Foth | Goerz | Grass & Worff | Levy-Roth | Ernst Lorenz | Plasmat | Rudolph | Rothgiesser & Schlossmann | Rüdersdorf | Schulze & Billerbeck | Sida | Stegemann | Romain Talbot

The Company

C.F. Foth & Co., Foth in short. This German optical company operated in Berlin in 1926, first working from premises at Cottbusser Damm 25-26 (–1928),[1] then from Berlin-Britz Grade Straße 91-107 (1928-1932)[2] and finally from Berlin-Buchholz, PankStrasse 1-3 (1932-1940).[3] The relationship of C.F. Foth Berlin to C.F.Foth in Danzig (Gdansk) and C.F. Foth & Cie in Paris is not clear at this point in time and requires further research.

Foth is known to have produced, or distributed binoculars and other optical instruments and manufactured a range of cameras and lenses from 1926 to 1940[4]. A cute little collectible is the Foth Derby, a vest pocket strut folder with focal plane shutter taking 30x40 mm images.

Cameras

Foth manufactured a range of camera and lenses, mainly a range of 6x9 plate cameras and folders.

Plate cameras

  • Foth plate camera 6x9 (1930–32)[5] with black leatherette and, as the luxus edition, with brown leather imitating crocodile skin[6]
  • Foth Mixte for film and 6x9 plates with Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933–37)[7]

120 roll film

  • Foth Film 6x9 initially offered with a Foth Doppel Anastigmat f6.3 (1926-27)[8] and after one year with the faster Foth Doppel Anastigmat f4.5 (1927-34).[9]
The standard camera was covered in black leatherette. A Deluxe Version covered in brown leather imitating crocodile and brown bellows also existed.[10] A very rare unit covered in green leather (with green bellows) has also been observed [11]
  • Foth Film 6.5x11, first with Foth Anastigmat f4.9 (1931-33).[12] and then, in common with the 6x9 model, with the Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933-)[13]
  • Foth Special 6x9 (self-erecting folder) with meniscus lens (1935).[14]
  • Foth Spring (self-erecting folder) with Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933-36).[15]
  • Foth Tropical Model (1930-35)

127 rollfilm

In addition, following the success of Franke and Heidecke’s Rolleiflex, Foth produced the Foth-flex (1933-36) fitted with a 75mm/3.5.[16]
Like the Derby the Foth-flex had a focal plane curtain shutter, which was an usual arrangement for the time. The Foth-flex II was introduced in 1937, again with a 75/3.5[17], but also with a 75/2.5.[18] The Foth-flex II was manufactured until 1939.

Other cameras

  • Foth Tubus Kamera (1930)[19]
  • Foth Stereo


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Foth 6x9
with brown crocodile leather imitation
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Foth Derby Type 3 (Image rights)
 

Notes

  1. ↑ Berliner Adreßbuch 1927. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 510.— Berliner Adreßbuch 1928. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 528.
  2. ↑ Berliner Adreßbuch 1929. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 574.— Berliner Adreßbuch 1930. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 580.—Berliner Adreßbuch 1931. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 426.—Berliner Adreßbuch 1932. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft p. 444.
  3. ↑ Berliner Adreßbuch 1933. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft p. 446.—Berliner Adreßbuch 1934. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft Erster Band, p. 579; Zweiter Band, p. 405.— Berliner Adreßbuch 1935. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft Erster Band, p. 579; Zweiter Band, p. 433.—Berliner Adreßbuch 1936. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft p. 448.— Berliner Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1937. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft p. 442.—Berliner Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1938. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft p. 453.—Berliner Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1939. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 435.— Berliner Adreßbuch 1940. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 426.
  4. ↑ Foth & Co is no longer listed in 1941: Berliner Adreßbuch 1941. Zweiter Band. Branchenverzeichnis. Berlin: Verlag August Scherl Deutsche Adreßbuch-Gesellschaft, p. 438.—Some web sources perpertuate a 1943 date without much evidence
  5. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1930, p. 22; 1931, p. 27; 1932, p. 22.—luxus_465 fotomuzeum.hu/en/cameras/foth_c_f_foth_co_derby_ luxus_465, www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C622.html
  6. ↑ See Sylvain Halgand's site
  7. ↑ Catalogue Photo Sport 1933, p. 8.—Catalogue Photo-Hall August 1933, p. 7; May 1935, p. 12.—Catalogue Photo-Plait 1932-33, p. 61; 1934, pp. 32-33; 1937, p. 44
  8. ↑ Also available with lenses by other manufacturers: Catalogue Photo-Plait 1927, p. 40.—See also | Sylvain Halgand's site
  9. ↑ Catalogue Photo Sport 1930, p. 13; 1933, p. 8.—Catalogue Photo-Hall May 1932, p. 16; August 1933, p. 7; April 1934, p. 6; 1934-35, p. 24; May 1935, p. 12—Catalogue Photo-Plait 1928, p. 50; 1929, p. 95; 1930, p. 60; 1931, p. 58; 1932 p. 57; 1932-33, p. 61; 1933, p. 25; 1934-35, p. 24;—www.fotonyf.republika.pl/sprzet/mmm/mfoth.htm.—McKeown 95/96 p. 199.
  10. ↑ Halgand's site
  11. ↑ (eBay 370402991849 July 2010).
  12. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1931, p. 66; 1932 p. 57; 1932-33, p. 61;.—Catalogue Photo-Hall May 1932, p. 16; August 1933, p. 7
  13. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1931, p. 58; 1933, p. 25
  14. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1935, p. 32
  15. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1933, p. 25; 1934, pp. 30-31; 1935, p. 32; 1936, p. 24.—Catalogue Photo-Sport 1933, p. 8.—Catalogue Photo-Hall May 1935, p. 12; May 1936, p. 12.—Catalogue Au Bon Marche 1933, p. 22
  16. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1933, p. 27; 1934, pp. 36-37; 1934-35, p. 24; 1935, p. 68; 1936, p. 73—Catalogue Photo-Hall April 1934, p. 6; May 1935, p. 12; May 1936, p. 12.—A Deluxe Version covered in brown leather imitating crocodile also existed (www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2453029)
  17. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1937, p. 45; 1938, p. 74; 1939, p. 62 — Popular Photography 1937
  18. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1937, p. 45
  19. ↑ www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/Kamerahersteller/foth.htm

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