General Electric
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| GE Flash Cubes nº 5 image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
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| GE Flash Cubes nº 5 image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
General Electric (GE) is one of the biggest companies of the United States of America, originally established in 1890 by Thomas A. Edison as the Edison General Electric Company by bringing his various businesses together. In 1892 the company was reorganized as the General Electric Company. It made photography history when it introduced its flash bulbs in 1927. GE stayed in that business so that it became a supplier of flip flashes for the pocket cameras which were highly in fashion during the 1970s, as well as the flashcubes for Instamatics and similar cassette film cameras. Since 1937 GE was also a maker of photographic light meters.
Today, digital cameras are sold under the General Electric brand by licencee General Imaging. In the name of GE it offered a line of very cheap digital bridge cameras with image sensors made by Aptina.
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| bridge camera GE X5 image by Paulo José Silva Ferraz (Image rights) |
 
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| GE 8DW47Y, 1937, GE DW-68, 1950 images by Anssi Puisto (Image rights) |
Meters
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| GE DW-58, 1946 image by mondays child (Image rights) |
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| General Electric PR-1 Exposure Meter image by Steve Harwood (Image rights) |
- GE DW-20 (foot candle meter - no calculator for photographic use)
- GE DW-40 (foot candle meter)
- GE DW-47 (essentially DW-40 with separate hood with calculator, 1937)
- GE DW-48 (1940)
- GE DW-49 (1941)
- GE DW-58 (ca. 1946)
- GE DW-68 (ca. 1950)
- GE Model 213 Exposure Meter (foot candle meter, ca. 1960)
- GE Model 214 (foot candle meter, ca. 1960)
- GE PC-1 Color temperature meter (1956)
- GE PR-1 (1947)
- GE PR-2 Guardian (1956)
- GE PR-3 Golden Crown (1958)
- GE PR-22 (Made for Polaroid ca. 1950)
- GE PR-30 Mascot (1951)
- GE PR-35 Mascot II (black and pink versions, 1957)
Links
 
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| GE Footcandle Light Meter 213 - 1962; GE Mascot Selenium Meter - 1954 images by Casual Camera Collector (Image rights) |
- G.E. light meter instruction manuals www.orphancameras.com
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| Polaroid exposure meter PR-22, made by GE image by Anssi Puisto (Image rights) |
