Jos-Pe
|
| JosPe Tri-Color Camera, 1924 image by AWCam (Image rights) |
Jos-Pe GmbH was a camera-maker in Hamburg and later Munich.[1][2] The company was named for Joseph Peter Welker, the main owner of the company. It is known only for the Tri-Color Camera, made between about 1924 and 1934[2][3] a metal-bodied plate camera for 'one-shot' colour separation photography.
The camera was made in two sizes, for 4.5x6 cm and 4x5 inch plates, according to McKeown,[1] though no examples of the larger camera have been seen. It has three positions for a dark-slide to be attached, at the back and on each side. These are engraved R, G and B (red, green and blue), as are the dark-slides themselves: an appropriate coloured filter (the same size as the plate) is placed in front of each position. Each is mounted on a short bellows; all three bellows are operated together, with a radial focusing control at the front of the camera.
The standard lens (for the 4.5x6 cm camera) is usually a 10.5 cm f/2.5 Steinheil Anastigmat Quinar, in a dial-set Compound shutter with speeds 1 - 1/100 second, plus 'B' and 'T'. An 18 cm f/3 Steinheil 'Jos-Pe Cassar' was sold at auction in 2006.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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). p452.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jos-Pe Thri-Color Camera (JPG image) 'type Uka', dated to about 1926, with an unknown lens, and engraved only 'Jos-Pe Hamburg' (not München); this camera has wooden dark-slide holders. In the announcement of a conference, Auf der Suche nach natuerlichen Farben - 150 Jahre Farbphotographie 28-30 October 2011, at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
- ↑ It is not clear that this is really the name the camera was sold under. McKeown uses this name, as does Westlicht when in English: in German, Westlicht simply calls it a Drei-Farben Kamera. The announcement by DGfP cited above refers to the camera (or perhaps only to an early type of it) as 'type Uka' (perhaps Ur-Kamera; original camera).
- ↑ Steinheil Jos-Pe Cassar 18 cm f/3 sold in September 2006 by Auction Team Breker in Cologne.
Links
Examples sold at auction:
- Tri-Color Camera serial no. 572, sold in March 2011 by Auction Team Breker.
- Tri-Color Camera serial no. 599, sold at the November 2008 Westlicht Photographica Auction.
- Tri-Color Camera serial no. 645, sold at the November 2002 Westlicht auction.
