Graflex
Disambiguation: Graflex means ...
- ... the main camera brand of Folmer & Schwing and its succeeding company
- ... the company that succeeded Folmer & Schwing when F&S had to be sold by Kodak in 1926
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Company
When a court had ordered that Kodak had to sell its Folmer & Schwing division no buyers appeared. A new company was founded which was named Folmer Graflex Corporation in 1928. In 1945 it was renamed to Graflex Inc. . From the days of depression of the 1930s to 1957 the company grew from 100 to 760 employees. It made successfully sophisticated SLRs and press cameras as well as TLRs and several 35mm cameras.
Cameras of Graflex and its predecessor Folmer & Schwing
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| Graflex 22 TLR |
35mm film
- Graflex Ciro 35
- Graflex Graphic 35
- Graflex Century 35
- Graflex Stereo Graphic
- Graphic 35 Electric (name variant of the Iloca Electric)
120/220 and 70mm film
- Graflex 22
- Graflex XL
- Combat Graphic
Large format
Links
| photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
| American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
| and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
| Conley |
| external links |
| graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
- The reference about Graflex is of course www.graflex.org
- http://www.butkus.org/chinon/other_manuals.htm This site contains a number of Graflex camera instruction manuals. In both PDF (Adobe 5.0 and above required) and HTML versions. Some very old Graflex manuals are located here.
- http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ Site contains older camera catalogs at the top of the site (1920 - 1980s) showing pricing of various Graflex cameras when released. Other Graflex model manuals located at bottom under "PROFESSIONAL" are from the 20's.
- learn more about personalising the Speed Graphic camera with extreme lenses
- Cameras and User manuals at www.collection-appareils.fr
