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Carlo Gallo was a camera maker in Florence, Italy, at about the turn of the 20th century. His premises were in Via Sant'Egidio.[1]
Cameras
- Monoreflex, about 1895:[2] 9x12cm wooden box-form reflex camera with cloth focal-plane shutter. The shutter mechanism automatically raises the mirror. Similar to the Soho Reflex or Ensign Reflex, but with the lensboard moving inside the body for focusing. Also with a much cruder viewing hood. The Monoreflex predates these cameras by several years: indeed,
The camera has a plate magazine for 12 plates, with a manual changing bag (allowing the newly-exposed plate to be moved to the back of the magazine).
Gallo is credited with the construction of the focal-plane shutter, and other elements, used in a camera (not a reflex) reported by engineer Arnaldo Corsi in 1892.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Found in a summary of bibliographical references to Gallo from the Bulletino della Società Fotografica Italiana at Archivio Fotografico Toscano; the relevant volume is not available online.
- ↑ Gallo Monoreflex with Voigtländer Collinear II f/5.4, sold at the Westlicht Photographica Auction, June 2017.
- ↑ Corsi, Arnaldo: Otturatori a tendina con fessura: applicati presso la lastra sensible (Slit-curtain shutter applied at the sensitive plate). Bulletino della Società Fotografica Italiana, Vol IV (1892) pp50-59, 169-177, and 213-218. Available to view or download in various formats including pdf at the Internet Archive; link is to p176, where Gallo is first mentioned. Gallo is also listed as a member of the SFI in the same volume.
