Mackenstein
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| Advertisement from Le Photo-Revue Belge, 1902. scan courtesy Romuald Swieconek (Image rights) |
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Établissements Mackenstein were founded in 1872 by Hermann-Josef Mackenstein (* 1848 in Doveren; † 1924). The factory was located at 15 Rue des Carmes in Paris.
In the beginning, the company produced small mechanical parts for cameras. In 1888 Mackenstein’s factory assembled the very first film camera equipped with a single lens, able to film up to 20 images per second. This film camera resulted from the work of Louis Augustin Le Prince, inventor of the cinematograph.
The Mackenstein company made a range of its own cameras, up until 1914:
- Detective cameras
- Both mono and stereo jumelle cameras (as in the advertisement illustrated):
- Jumelle réduite (mono)
- Jumelle stéreo-panoramique
- La Francia
- Kallista (for circular stereo photographs)
- Strut-folding cameras
- Simple strut-folders[1]
- La Francia strut-folding models (mono and stero)
- Chambres de voyage and others.
- 'Photo-livre'; camera disguised as a book.
- Studio cameras[2]
Notes
- ↑ McKeown shows a camera dated to about 1890, with hinged wooden panels as struts, and a pleated bellows. A similar camera for 13x18 cm plates was offered for sale at the 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction on 23 November 2013. A 13x18 cm strut-folder with metal rod-struts and an unpleated, cloth bellows was sold in September 2006 by Auction Team Breker in Cologne.
- ↑ 30x30 cm studio camera, about 1890, wood and brass, with 12¾ inch f/4.5 Cooke portrait lens, on large wheeled wooden stand, sold in May 2009 by Auction Team Breker. The listing states that the camera has a focal-plane shutter, but in the photograph, only a behind-the-lens shutter (of the Thornton-Pickard type) is visible.
Links
- Stereo Jumelle Mackenstein (c.1893)
- Mackenstein page at Collection G. Even's site
- Cameras Mackenstein on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
- Patents held by Hermann Mackenstein, at Espacenet, the Patent search facility of the European Patent Office:
- Swiss Patent 5162 of 21 May 1892, Châssis photographique à rouleaux, numérotant ou repérant les clichés (Photographic frame for rolls, numbering or identifying the pictures), describing a roll-film back with a frame counter, incorporating a device to expose the margin of the picture to ambient light through perforated wheels, thus marking the frame number, and also numbers or letters to represent the roll number, etc.; in short, an early data-back.
