Murer & Duroni
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Teodoro Murer was a camera designer based in Milan, Italy, who made cameras with a company called Duroni. They sold cameras under the names Murer and Salex. In Sweden, the cameras were sold by Hasselblad, and in France by Gaumont[1]. The Duroni company was founded by Alessandro Duroni (1807-1870), c.1835-36, as an optical instrument dealer[2]; Murer joined the company in c.1892.
There are a number of albumen photographs in galleries credited to Murer & Duroni as photographers[3]. Since the original Duroni had died before Murer arrived, this credit must be to the company or a later Duroni. Alessandro Duroni himself has a number of photos credited, including of Guiseppe Garibaldi and Vittorio Emmanuele II, King of Italy 1861-78.
Cameras
- Blitz
- Murer's Express
- Muro (folder, 1914)
- Express Newness: wooden falling-plate detective cameras for various plate sizes, c.1900; very similar to cameras made by several other firms (). The cameras have Murer anastigmat lenses,[4] a guillotine shutter with several speeds, and six aperture stops (i.e. selectable fixed stops, not an iris). Other than the square-format and stereo models, they have two Watson-type viewfinders, for vertical and horizontal orientation.
- Folding plate focal plane strut folders
- Piccolo (roll-film jumelle camera, c.1900)
- Reflex (6.5x9cm SLR, c.1920s)
- Salex Murer: miniature strut-folding camera for 40×55 mm photographs on plates or film packs.[6]
- SL (Box, c.1900)
- SL Special
- Sprite
- Stereo
- Stereo SL Special
- Stereo Box
- Stereo Reflex (plate stereo SLR)
- UF (strut folder, c.1910)
- UP-M (strut folder, c.1924)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes on the Express Newness SL falling-plate box camera, about 1900, for 6.5×9 cm plates, in the Collection of Elisabetta and L. David Tomei.
- ↑ Storia della Fotografia
- ↑ e.g. at the National Portrait Gallery in London and on the Storia della Fotofrafia site {Italian}
- ↑ 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). p704-5.
- ↑ Express Newness Stereo falling-plate box camera for 9×18 cm plates, about 1905, sold at the May 2011 Westlicht Photographica Auction in Vienna.
- ↑ 1922 Salex Murer camera in an exhibition Cameras: the Technology of Photographic Imaging at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science. The camera has a 70 mm f/5.5 anastigmat with helical focusing to one metre, and focal-plane shutter with speeds up to 1/1000 second. Ground-glass focusing is also possible. There is a Newton finder with the front part mounted in a sliding lens cover, like the earlier Gaumont Block-Notes.
Links
- Murer & Duroni falling-plate camera
- Photo of Murer & Duroni Blitz Camera and read view on Flickr by Bike/camera guy
- Photos by Duroni on Wikimedia commons.
- Muro camera at Kurt Tauber's site
