Murer & Duroni
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Theodore 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]. Duroni's 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.
Cameras[4]
- Blitz
- Murer's Express
- Muro (folder, 1914)
- Express Newness A, Sl, G and H (box, c.1900)
- Folding plate focal plane stut folders
- Piccolo (tapered box, c.1900)
- Reflex (6.5x9cm SLR, c.1920s)
- Salex Murer Miniature Folding Camera
- 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
- ↑ the Tomei's site
- ↑ Storia della Fotografia
- ↑ e.g. at the National Portrait Gallery in London and on the Storia della Fotofrafia site {Italian}
- ↑ from McKeown p.704 and web searches; list needs work
Links
- 1922 Murer camera at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science
- Murer & Duroni's Murer Express camera by Elisabetta & L. David Tomei
- Murer & Duroni falling-plate camera
- Photo of Murer & Duroni Blitz Camera and read view on Flickr by Bike/camera guy
