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'''Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke''' was a camera-maker in Germany from the 1920s, when the new company took over its works in Görlitz, where [[Ernemann]] had made [[Globus]] cameras there, until some time in the 1990s. The company made wooden-bodied view cameras similar to the Globus ones. At least at first, the company onwers were Reinsch and Wolf.<ref>[http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=DE&NR=399994C&KC=C&FT=D&ND=3&date=19240812&DB=worldwide.espacenet.com&locale=en_EP German Patent 399994] of 1924, ''Vorrichtung zum Verschwenken einer Kamera'' (Apparatus for rotating a camera), filed in February 1923 and granted in August 1924 to Neue Görlitzer Camera Werke Reinsch & Wolf, describing an arc-shaped mount for the focusing screen and plate-holder at the rear of a view camera, allowing them to be rotated about the optical axis, to compensate for a tilt in the subject; at [http://worldwide.espacenet.com/?locale=en_EP Espacenet], the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.</ref>
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'''Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke Robert Reinsch & Wolf''' was a camera-maker in Germany, founded in 1920 by Robert Reinsch, former leading craftsman at [[Herbst & Firl]]. It took over a factory in Görlitz where [[Herbst & Firl]] had produced [[Ernemann]]'s [[Globus]] cameras.
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The company made wooden-bodied view cameras similar to the Globus ones, and big [[studio camera]]s for [[large format]] photography, mainly its new ''Globus-Stella'' and ''Globica'' series. Company onwers were Reinsch and Wolf.<ref>[http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=DE&NR=399994C&KC=C&FT=D&ND=3&date=19240812&DB=worldwide.espacenet.com&locale=en_EP German Patent 399994] of 1924, ''Vorrichtung zum Verschwenken einer Kamera'' (Apparatus for rotating a camera), filed in February 1923 and granted in August 1924 to Neue Görlitzer Camera Werke Reinsch & Wolf, describing an arc-shaped mount for the focusing screen and plate-holder at the rear of a view camera, allowing them to be rotated about the optical axis, to compensate for a tilt in the subject; at [http://worldwide.espacenet.com/?locale=en_EP Espacenet], the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.</ref>
  
  
 
==Cameras==
 
==Cameras==
* Stella<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=20131004_0909&inO=634 13x18 cm Stella studio camera] with 15 cm f/4.5 Tessar and Compur shutter, offered for sale at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=20131004_0909 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 23 November 2013.</ref>
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* Globus-Stella<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=20131004_0909&inO=634 13x18 cm Stella studio camera] with 15 cm f/4.5 Tessar and Compur shutter, offered for sale at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=20131004_0909 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 23 November 2013.</ref>
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Revision as of 16:07, 17 November 2013

Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke Robert Reinsch & Wolf was a camera-maker in Germany, founded in 1920 by Robert Reinsch, former leading craftsman at Herbst & Firl. It took over a factory in Görlitz where Herbst & Firl had produced Ernemann's Globus cameras.

The company made wooden-bodied view cameras similar to the Globus ones, and big studio cameras for large format photography, mainly its new Globus-Stella and Globica series. Company onwers were Reinsch and Wolf.[1]


Cameras

  • Globus
  • Globus-Stella[2]
  • Globica


Notes

  1. German Patent 399994 of 1924, Vorrichtung zum Verschwenken einer Kamera (Apparatus for rotating a camera), filed in February 1923 and granted in August 1924 to Neue Görlitzer Camera Werke Reinsch & Wolf, describing an arc-shaped mount for the focusing screen and plate-holder at the rear of a view camera, allowing them to be rotated about the optical axis, to compensate for a tilt in the subject; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
  2. 13x18 cm Stella studio camera with 15 cm f/4.5 Tessar and Compur shutter, offered for sale at the 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 23 November 2013.