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Revision as of 17:40, 29 July 2016

Camera industry in Dresden
Balda | Certo | Eho-Altissa | Eichapfel | Ernemann | Feinmess | Heyde | Hamaphot | Huth | Hüttig | ICA | Ihagee | Kochmann | Kerman | KW | Eugen Loeber | Ludwig | Mentor | Merkel | Meyer | Mimosa | Pentacon | Richter | Sommer | Stübiger | Unger & Hoffmann | Werner | Wünsche | Zeiss Ikon | Zeh
Camera distributors in Dresden
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Camera industry in Freital
Beier | Pouva | Thowe | Welta


In 1856 Richard Hüttig became a joiner in Berlin. He had been apprentice in a joinery for camera cases. He became master of this profession. Later, in the 1860s, he became chief of a big camera factory which moved to Dresden in 1887.



History

His company, Richard Hüttig & Sohn (later Hüttig AG), had been the biggest European camera maker for a certain period. It was the first company in Dresden that produced a single lens reflex camera, the Zeus-Spiegel-Kamera.

In 1904 it offered 90 camera types in 400 variations. After the merger of his company into ICA the career of Mr. Hüttig declined. As a poor old man he got a place in a home for the aged from the Council of Dresden.


Cameras

  • Afpi
  • Atom (4.5×6cm folding, 1908)
  • Aviso (4.5×6cm magazine camera, 1907)
  • Box Kamera (1890)
  • Briefmarkenkamera (earlier sold in England by Butcher's)
  • Cameo & Cameo Stereo
  • Carmen
  • Cosmopolit
  • Cupido
  • Cupido Stereolette
  • Elegant
  • Excelsior
  • Fichtners Excelsior Geheimkamera
  • Furror Detektiv Kamera
  • Gnom (4.5×6, 6.5×9 or 9×12 magazine camera, 1900)
  • Halifax
  • Hekla
  • Helios I, II, Stereopanorama
  • Hochtourist
  • Ideal (9×12cm folding, 1908)
  • Ideal stereo
  • Ingo
  • Jelco
  • Jul
  • Künstler-Kamera
  • Lloyd
  • Merkur (box, 1900)
  • Monopol, Monopol stereo
  • Nelson
  • Tosca
  • Trilby Magazinkamera (1905)
  • Zeus Detectivkamera
  • Zeus-Spiegel-Kamera (1896) I & II

Links

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