Sommer
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Bernhard Sommer was a manufacturer of focal-plane shutters in Dresden.[1] The firm made some cameras:
- Sport R.1 press camera 6.5x9cm (perhaps other sizes) strut-folding press camera with 11.3cm f/4.5 Meyer Satz-Plasmat.[1][2]
- Night Camera, about 1930 (so described by Westlicht: quite probably not the name Sommer gave the camera): a copy of the Ermanox combining Sommer's shutter (speeds 1/25 - 1/1000 second) with a 9cm f/1.5 Plasmat, with helical focusing on a rigid lens-tube, and a Newton finder, as in the Ermanox.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes on Sommer and the 6.5x9cm Sport R.1 press camera at Collection Appareils
- ↑ 'Press camera', very probably a Sport R.1, with the same lens, sold at Christie's in 1996;no picture.
- ↑ Night Camera sold at the thirteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in June 2008: several photos of the camera.
