Simda
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Simda was a company founded in Paris by Simone and Daniel Guébin (they were wife and husband; the company name is a combination of their names),[1] in 1955, according to Collection d'Appareils.[2] An advertisement gives the comany address as 13 bis Rue du Bel-Air, in Perreux-sur-Marne, a residential area; the building still stands.
The company is known for only one camera, the Panorascope, a stereo camera for panoramic views on 16 mm cine film. Two models of this camera were made.
A stereo projector for 35 mm slides made by Simda was sold at Westlicht.[3][4]
Notes
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p894.
- ↑ Notes on Simda and the Panorascope at Sylvain Halgand's Collection d'Appareils Photo.
- ↑ Polysynchro stereo 35 mm projector sold at the November 2007 Westlicht Photographica Auction; dated by the auctioneer to about 1960.
- ↑ French Patent 1261001 in the name of Daniel Guébin, Utilisation des miroirs froids et des écrans dégradés dans les systèmes de projection (Use of 'cold mirrors' and graduated screens in projection systems (stereoscopy and cross-fade)), filed 1960 and granted 1961; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office. The patent describes the use of mirrors and graduated screens deposited under vacuum to give high light output while protecting the projected material from infra-red (i.e. heat), and also their use in accomplishing cross-fade transition between slides.
