Svea
The Svea[1] is a high quality 9x12 cm falling-plate detective camera, made by the Swedish Hugo Svennson company in Gothenburg, and sold by Hasselblad in Sweden in about 1897, long before Hasselblad had begun making their own cameras, but under the name Hasselblads Svea Kamera (impressed elegantly in the swinging lens-cover).[2] Victor Hasselblad himself had a Svea when he was a youth.[3]
The camera is wooden bodied, with black or brown leather covering.[4] It has a brass-bound Carl Zeiss Jena 148 mm f/7.2 Anastigmat (said by the auctioneer's notes at Westlicht to be equivalent to a Protar).[2] It has focusing (perhaps using the knurled knob below the lens). It has brilliant finders, tripod bushes and spirit levels for horizontal and vertical orientation. It took twelve plates,[2] and has a plate-counter window in the rear door.
Notes
- ↑ Svea is a Swedish girl's name, related to the name of Sweden and its founding people; 'Svea' at Wikipedia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Svea offered at the May 2012 Westlicht Photographica Auction in Vienna.
- ↑ Victor Hasselblad's Svea in the Hasselblad Foundation's collection.
- ↑ Brown-coloured Svea in a post in the forum at Sylvain Halgand's Collection d'Appareils.
