Lotus View Camera
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| Lotus Rapid Field 8x10inch. Image courtesy of Lotus View Camera.. (Image rights) |
Lotus View Camera is a camera maker in Ostermiething, Austria. It makes the wooden Lotus Rapid Field view cameras in ten different exposure format variants, from 4x5" up to 20x24".
History
Lotus View Camera was founded by Burkhardt Kiegeland in 1997 as a branch of the "Weisser Lotus Produktions und Vertriebs GmhH", a company situated in the Austrian countryside near Salzburg and which was a project of working and living together of several famlies with their children.
For his art work Burkhardt Kiegeland needed photographic accessoires which he found unable to find in the necessary quality so, together with a carpenter and a metalworker, these were produced by themselves. In September 1997 their first camera was sold, a 12x20" view camera.
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| Lotus Rapid Field 5x7inch. Images courtesy of Lotus View Camera. (Image rights) | |||||
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| Detail views of the Lotus Rapid Field 5x7inch camera. Image courtesy of Lotus View Camera. (Image rights) | ||||||||
