Suter

E Suter was a lens and camera maker based in Basel, Switzerland. Emil Suter designed and manufactured brass barrel lenses, based on his own patent of 1900, comprising an eight element two group design. Their Reisekameras were of the well established tailboard constuction Continental View type. The Swiss-Box and the Detectiv Magazin camera were quite individual constructions. The Cupido was a 9x12cm plate camera, a unique construction with self-erecting bellows. This invention seems to have been shared with Hüttig, even the name Cupido was also given to such 9x12 cameras of the camera maker from Dresden and its successor Ica. Suter's and Hüttig's Cupido were different except their use of the same bellows unfolding mechanism.

cameras

• Reisekamera 13x18
• Reisekamera 18x24
• Swiss-Box
• Detectiv Magazin Kamera
• Cupido

Lenses

• Anastigmat
• Aplanat
• Rapid Aplanat

Links

• Swiss-Box at Christie's
• image of Detectiv Magazin Kamera, at Westlicht [1]
• Detectiv Magazin Kamera wrongly showed as "Reisecamera" at Kurt Paulus' Museum [2]
• Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr