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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. produced a number 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.

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Foth Derby

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]
  • Foth Mixte for film and 6x9 plates with Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933–37)[6]

120 roll film

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Foth 6x9 with brown crocodile leather imitation
  • Foth Film 6x9 initially offered with a Foth Anastigmat f6.3 (1926-27)[7] and after one year with the faster Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1927-34)[8]
  • Foth Film 6.5x11, first with Foth Anastigmat f4.9 (1931-33)[9]and then, in common with the 6x9 model, with the Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933-)[10]
  • Foth Special 6x9 (self-erecting folder) with meniscus lens (1935)[11]
  • Foth Spring (self-erecting folder) with Foth Anastigmat f4.5 (1933-36)[12]
  • 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.[13]
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[14], but also with a 75/2.5.[15] The Foth-flex II was manufactured until 1939.

Other cameras

  • Foth Tubus Kamera (1930)[16]
  • Foth Stereo

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. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ Also available with lenses by other manufacturers: Catalogue Photo-Plait 1927, p. 40
  8. ↑ 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.—A Deluxe Version covered in brown leather imitating crocodile and brown bellows also existed.—A very rare unit covered in green leather (with green bellows) has also been observed (eBay 370402991849 July 2010).—McKeown 95/96 p. 199
  9. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1931, p. 66; 1932 p. 57; 1932-33, p. 61;.—Catalogue Photo-Hall May 1932, p. 16; August 1933, p. 7
  10. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1931, p. 58; 1933, p. 25
  11. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1935, p. 32
  12. ↑ 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
  13. ↑ 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)
  14. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1937, p. 45; 1938, p. 74; 1939, p. 62 — Popular Photography 1937
  15. ↑ Catalogue Photo-Plait 1937, p. 45
  16. ↑ www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/Kamerahersteller/foth.htm

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