Kolar
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V. Kolař was a camera maker in the Modřany area of Prague in the 1930s.
Cameras
- Kola: camera for 4x4 cm exposures on 127 film. Box-shaped metal body, with the back fastening with spring clips which grip the front plate. 5 cm lenses including Kolar's own f/3.5 Rekolar,[1] f/4.5 Dialytar and f/3.5 Tessar,[2] and Compur shutter. Some examples have front-element focusing; others have helical focusing, with a large ring behind the lens and shutter. Film advance knob with frame-counter (no red window). At least some early cameras have a folding Galilean viewfinder;[2] most example seen, however, have a small tubular one. A special long-lens model was made with a 7.5 cm f/4.5 Kolyt lens mounted on a short lens-tube.[3]
- Kolarex: folding viewfinder camera for 4x6.5 cm exposures on 127 film.[2]
- Box Kolex: box camera for 4.5x6 cm plates in single holders. Metal body with brown leather covering. 7.5 cm f/6.3 Rekolar with front-element focusing and Vario shutter, and large folding frame finder on one side.[4][2]
- Box-Reflex: pseudo-TLR for roll film, similar to the Brillant. Bakelite body, 7.5 cm f/6.3 Rekolar with front-element focusing and Vario shutter.[2]
- Diar: small metal-bodied camera for roll film. Un-named lens, simple shutter and folding frame finder.[2]
- Prototype 35-mm camera:[5] apparently for paper-backed film (it has a red window), with 5.5 cm f/4.5 Kolar anastigmat and Koilos shutter, mounted with a helical focus ring. The camera has a tubular reverse-Galilean finder on the top plate, and a brilliant finder for vertical use. The example cited is the only one known to exist.
Notes
- ↑ Kola with 5 cm f/3.5 Anastigmat Rekolar, sold at the Photographica 8, on 25 January 2009, by Rahn AG.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Kolar cameras at Georgios Kostikidis' Československé fotoaparáty...; pictures of the Box Kolex, Box-Reflex, Kolarex, Diar, and four examples of the Kola with different lenses (one described as the 'first model', the only example seen with a folding viewfinder).
- ↑ Kola with 7.5 cm f/4.5 Kolyt and Compur-Rapid shutter, sold at Auction 41 by LP Photoauktioner, on 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Box Kolex sold at the 23rd Westlicht auction, in May 2013.
- ↑ Kolar prototype 35-mm camera with 5.5 cm f/4.5 Kolar anastigmat and Koilos shutter, sold at the 24th Westlicht auction, on 23 November 2013.
