Schlagheck Design
Schlagheck Design, previously Schlagheck & Schultes, is a design firm, located in Munich, Germany. The firm has delivered designs for several classic cameras, among other products. Schlagheck Design traces its roots to 1967, when Norbert Schlagheck (later professor at Fachhochschule für Industrie Design in Munich) and Herbert H. Schultes left Siemens to found an independent studio. While at Siemens they had already worked with Agfa, due to cooperation between the companies at the time, and continued to design for Agfa after becoming independent[1]. The designs for Agfa provided a new and more modern direction for the camera-maker, with a signature being the the large red sensor shutter release.
Schlagheck & Schultes almost certainly provided the exterior design of the Plaubel Makina 67, with chief designer Yasuo Uchida stating that he had to fight with a "professor in Munich" over the size of the lens face. Uchida yielded in the end, and now considerds the big flat lens design one of the Makina 67's best distinguishing features[2]. In 1985 Herbert H. Schultes left the company to become Chief designer at Siemens, taking several employees with him. Together with his sons Norbert Schlagheck founded Schlagheck Design GmbH in 1991.
Besides designs for original Agfa-cameras, the company provided re-designs of existing camera systems, including the Agfa Selectronic (Chinon) and Exakta 66 (Pentacon)
Camera designs
- Agfa Family
- Agfa Agfamatic 50 (1972)
- Agfa Agfamatic 100 Sensor (1972)
- Agfa Agfamatic 200 Sensor (1972)
- Agfa Agfamatic 300 Sensor (1972)
- Agfa Agfamatic 2000 Pocket (1974)
- Agfa Optima 200 Sensor (1968)
- Agfa Optima 335 Sensor (1978)
- Agfa Optima 500 Sensor
- Agfa Optima 535 Sensor (1976)
- Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor (1976)
- Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor (1979)
- Agfa Selectronic 1 (re-design of Chinon CM-4)
- Agfa Selectronic 2 (re-design of Chinon CA-4)
- Agfa Selectronic 3 (re-design of Chinon CE-4)
- Plaubel Makina 67
- Exakta 66 (re-design of Pentacon Six)
Notes
Links
- Schlagheck Design website
