Globus
The Globus cameras are a range of field and studio cameras first made by Ernst Herbst & Firl, in Görlitz, at the German-Polish border. The company merged with Ernemann in about 1899, but the Herbst & Firl identity was retained by the works (as on the maker's plate of the camera shown here), and the Globus range was continued until 1920, when Ernemann sold the Görlitz factory (perhaps as a result of the difficulties that eventually led to the Zeiss Ikon merger). A new company, Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke, took over the factory and production of Globus cameras; this company survived the Second World War, was nationalised as VEB Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke, and was active until the 1990s.[1]
The name Globus was used for a wide range of different cameras, and is best seen as a brand rather than a model name. McKeown shows photographs of a tailboard field camera, a conventional folding bed camera, and a studio camera on a large wheeled stand, all named Globus. The example shown here is a Reisekamera, a folding field camera of a pattern characteristic to Germany.
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 Matte screen swung up, and dark-slide inserted |
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| Reisekamera with double-extension bellows with rack-and-pinion focusing, and with front rise, shift and tilt, and rear tilt. |
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| This example of Herbst & Firl's Ernemann Globus has an Ernemann Doppelanastigmat Ernon 1:6.8 No.3 f=210mm lens in a Compound leaf-shutter. Note (bottom right) the Ernemann "light goddess"; logo of A.G. Ernemann E.Herbst&Firl Görlitz in the tilt scale of the camera's back. images by eBayer Manni69 (Image rights) | ||
Notes
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p272 (Ernemann) and 716-7 (Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke).
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- Globus A Reisekamera, 13x18 cm, in walnut, about 1905, with 240 mm Goerz Doppel-Anastimat series III, and in mahogany, about 1908, with 265 mm f/6.3 Leitmeyer Sytar, sold at the ninth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in May 2006.
- Globus G in mahogany (the same as the camera shown above), about 1910, with 24 cm f/5.7 Rodenstock Heligonal, sold at the seventh Westlicht auction, in May 2005.
- 18x24 cm Globus 'English pattern' field camera with Star Rapid Rectilinear, sold at Christie's in London in October 1996 (no picture).
