Karl-Heinz Lange

camera, door closed, flash coupled, the Balda CA 35, better kown as Vito C

Karl-Heinz Lange (born 1932 in Güstrow) was a German camera designer. From 1950 to 1952 he was in apprenticeship at Balda in Bünde, and developed the rangefinder of the Super-Baldinette. Then the leading developer of Balda took him into his development department. He left Balda after troubles with the free-lancing constructor Danzer. Then Lange went to Montanus Camerabau in Solingen. He kept contacts to Balda and made further developments for them in his free time. He built prototypes of the Baldessa cameras at home. After one month in Solingen Balda engaged him again - as chief constructor. Back in Bünde he light-tightened Danzer's Super Baldina and constructed several exciting camera models:

Lange redesigned this Nimslo 3D Stereo camera, making it lighter an cheaper

• Baldessa Ib (coupled rangefinder with parallax correction)
• Super Baldamatic (first automatic shutter priority camera with Compur shutter)
• Voigtländer Bessy k/ak/as/s (Kodapak)
• Voigtländer Vito C (Minox 35 concurrence)
• Nizo 1000
• Minox 110 S (pocket camera)
• Nimslo 3D (cheap late version)
• Argus Carefree 164 (Kodapak)

Link

• About Karl-Heinz Lange on Ulrich Vogt's page (Vogt is one of the authors of the book about Heinz Waaske)