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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, | + | *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, sold at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=20131004_0909 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 23 November 2013.</ref> |
*Globica | *Globica | ||
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Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke Robert Reinsch & Wolf Nachf. was a camera-maker in Germany, founded in 1920 by Robert Reinsch[1], 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 badged with its Globus-Stella and Globica labels. It also made tripods, forensic cameras and repro cameras. Company onwers were Reinsch and ancestors of a Mr. Wolf.[2] In 1958 the company became part of Pentacon group and continued making the professional studio camera Globica. Production ended in 1991.
Cameras
- Globus
- Globus-Stella[3]
- Globica
Notes
- ↑ see Görlitz Wiki
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 13x18 cm Stella studio camera with 15 cm f/4.5 Tessar and Compur shutter, sold at the 24th Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 23 November 2013.
| Camera industry in Görlitz |
| Paul Dittrich & Co. Curt Bentzin | Herbst & Firl | Meyer Mlitz & Krügler | Robert Reinsch Neue Görlitzer Camera-Werke |
