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'''Kamera-Werk C. Richter<REF> There was maybe another camera company called Richter, possibly a distributor from the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century: a plate engraved ''H. RICHTER Berlin, Optische Centrale, Spittelmarkt'' has been reported on a magazine box camera taking 9&times;12cm film plates, that has some similarity with cameras made by [[Ernemann]]. </REF> Tharandt'''<REF> According to [http://www.dresdner-kameras.de/ dresdner-kameras.de], the word "Tharandt" was part of the full name. Other sources, including {{McKeown}} and the site [http://www.praktica-collector.de/ praktica-collector.de] are ambiguous on this point. </REF> is the new name, adopted in 1932, of the company '''Camera-Werk Merkel''', founded in 1900. It was based in Tharandt, Germany, and produced the [[Reflecta]] [[TLR]] around 1933. After the war, this company was succeeded by [[Lipca]] in West-Germany and by an East German company called '''Reflecta Kamera-Werke Tharandt''' from 1946 to 1948 then simply '''Kamera-Werk Tharandt''' from 1948 to 1950.<REF> According to the site [http://www.dresdner-kameras.de/ dresdner-kameras.de]. The site [http://www.praktica-collector.de/ praktica-collector.de] mentions one name only: "VEB Reflecta Kamerawerk Tharandt", and says that this company only existed in 1946, that is probably a mistake. {{McKeown}} only mentions "Kamera-Werk Tharandt" for the period running from 1946 to 1950. </REF>
 
'''Kamera-Werk C. Richter<REF> There was maybe another camera company called Richter, possibly a distributor from the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century: a plate engraved ''H. RICHTER Berlin, Optische Centrale, Spittelmarkt'' has been reported on a magazine box camera taking 9&times;12cm film plates, that has some similarity with cameras made by [[Ernemann]]. </REF> Tharandt'''<REF> According to [http://www.dresdner-kameras.de/ dresdner-kameras.de], the word "Tharandt" was part of the full name. Other sources, including {{McKeown}} and the site [http://www.praktica-collector.de/ praktica-collector.de] are ambiguous on this point. </REF> is the new name, adopted in 1932, of the company '''Camera-Werk Merkel''', founded in 1900. It was based in Tharandt, Germany, and produced the [[Reflecta]] [[TLR]] around 1933. After the war, this company was succeeded by [[Lipca]] in West-Germany and by an East German company called '''Reflecta Kamera-Werke Tharandt''' from 1946 to 1948 then simply '''Kamera-Werk Tharandt''' from 1948 to 1950.<REF> According to the site [http://www.dresdner-kameras.de/ dresdner-kameras.de]. The site [http://www.praktica-collector.de/ praktica-collector.de] mentions one name only: "VEB Reflecta Kamerawerk Tharandt", and says that this company only existed in 1946, that is probably a mistake. {{McKeown}} only mentions "Kamera-Werk Tharandt" for the period running from 1946 to 1950. </REF>
  

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Kamera-Werk C. Richter[1] Tharandt[2] is the new name, adopted in 1932, of the company Camera-Werk Merkel, founded in 1900. It was based in Tharandt, Germany, and produced the Reflecta TLR around 1933. After the war, this company was succeeded by Lipca in West-Germany and by an East German company called Reflecta Kamera-Werke Tharandt from 1946 to 1948 then simply Kamera-Werk Tharandt from 1948 to 1950.[3]

The East-German company was merged into Welta in 1950 to form VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk. This company made the Reflekta II. VEB Welta in turn became part of the large VEB Kamera- und Kinowerk Dresden in 1959, a state owned conglomerate of East-German cameramakers that was to become VEB Pentacon in 1964.

6×6 TLR

Notes

  1. There was maybe another camera company called Richter, possibly a distributor from the beginning of the 20th century: a plate engraved H. RICHTER Berlin, Optische Centrale, Spittelmarkt has been reported on a magazine box camera taking 9×12cm film plates, that has some similarity with cameras made by Ernemann.
  2. According to dresdner-kameras.de, the word "Tharandt" was part of the full name. Other sources, including McKeown and the site praktica-collector.de are ambiguous on this point.
  3. According to the site dresdner-kameras.de. The site praktica-collector.de mentions one name only: "VEB Reflecta Kamerawerk Tharandt", and says that this company only existed in 1946, that is probably a mistake. McKeown only mentions "Kamera-Werk Tharandt" for the period running from 1946 to 1950.

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