Difference between revisions of "Rochester Optical Co."
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In 1883 the Rochester Optical Company was founded by W. F. Carlton when he took over the assets of camera maker William H. Walker. It invented and produced the famous "Pony Premo" view camera line, and viewfinder cameras for "Premo film pack". In 1899 it became participant of an unsuccessful merger of camera companies. The resulting company made losses and was taken over by Kodak in 1903. Kodak let the factory continue the Premo camera line. And soon it shared its house at 12 Caledonia Avenue with Kodak's other purchases Century and Folmer & Schwing. |
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Links
| photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
| American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
| and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
| Conley |
| external links |
| graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
- history of Rochester Optical Co. at Historic Camera
- Rochester Optical's field cameras at Field Cameras of the United States
- List of cameras from the Rochester Optical Co. with reference information at Historic Camera
- The "Rochester Folding Camera" of 1892 with "Rochester" shutter by David Silver
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| Premoette Jr. No.1 with achromatic lens image by Donna L. Burnett (Image rights) |
