Foto-Quelle
Quelle retail logo sign image by Been Around (Image rights) |
Foto-Quelle of Nuremberg, Germany, is a large retailer of camera and photographic equipment. It sold a variety of film cameras and other optical instruments (such as binoculars)[1] produced by other manufacturers under the Revue and Revueflex brands. Those manufacturers included most notably the japanese companies Chinon and Cosina, as well as the Russian state-owned KMZ factory, most prominently several cameras of their Zenit line. In the 60s Foto-Quelle also distributed Petri and Konica cameras under the Revue brand, which are much rarer today.
Foto-Quelle was originally founded in 1957 as a subsidiary of the large retailer and mail-order house Quelle, Foto-Quelle became Europe's largest photographic retailer by 1966 and in 1970, the world's largest.
Distributed cameras
Revue 640 image by Junjie Tang (Image rights) |
Links
- Revue page at Collection G. Even's site
- Revue Cameras & Catalogs at www.collection-appareils.fr
- Revueflex, Revueflex 1000 S, Revueflex 1001, Revueflex 2000 CL, Revueflex 2002, Revueflex 3000 SL, Revueflex 4004, Revueflex 5000 EE, Revueflex SC1, Revueflex T on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
Notes
- ↑ Revue 8 x 30 Type A-A-38494 binoculars