Difference between revisions of "Voss"
(image added) |
(image added) |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
}} | }} | ||
| − | '''Walter Voss''' (31 August 1908 - 11 August '68) was the founder of '''Walter Voss, Photo-Kamera-Fabrikation & Feinmechanik''', the company that made the [[Diax]] line of 35mm cameras in the 1950s, in southern Germany's city of Ulm. The first product of 1946 was a rangefinder named "Photometer", made by a few people in rooms of his dwelling. In 1947 Voss began to make the Diax, production began in 1949, in rooms of Ulm's old fortress. Later the company got a modern industry building for production in Ulm's Neutorstraße 56. In 1957 production and company ceased. | + | '''Walter Voss''' (31 August 1908 - 11 August '68) was the founder of '''Walter Voss, Photo-Kamera-Fabrikation & Feinmechanik''', the company that made the [[Diax]] line of 35mm cameras in the 1950s, in southern Germany's city of Ulm. The first product of 1946 was a rangefinder named "Photometer", made by a few people in rooms of his dwelling. In 1947 Voss began to make the Diax, production began in 1949, in rooms of Ulm's old fortress. Later the company got a modern industry building for production in Ulm's Neutorstraße 56. In 1957 production and company ceased, after Voss had made c. 100.000 Diax cameras in 10 years. |
===Cameras=== | ===Cameras=== | ||
{{Flickr_image | {{Flickr_image | ||
| + | |image_source= https://www.flickr.com/photos/132358871@N04/28987582856/in/pool-camerawiki | ||
| + | |image= https://live.staticflickr.com/8176/28987582856_29fbd3f1e5_n_d.jpg | ||
| + | |image_align= left | ||
| + | |image_text= Diax Ia of 1954 and Diax IIb of 1957 | ||
| + | |image_by= Wolf | ||
| + | |image_rights= wp | ||
| + | }}{{Flickr_image | ||
|image_source= https://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksoloway/6474651115/in/pool-camerawiki | |image_source= https://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksoloway/6474651115/in/pool-camerawiki | ||
| − | |image= https://live.staticflickr.com/7160/ | + | |image= https://live.staticflickr.com/7160/6474651115_7637e46d4e_n.jpg |
| − | |image_align= | + | |image_align= center |
|image_text= a Diax of 1949 | |image_text= a Diax of 1949 | ||
|image_by= Rick Soloway | |image_by= Rick Soloway | ||
Revision as of 11:03, 3 March 2021
|
| Complete Voss Diax Ia kit image by Paul Hansen (Image rights) |
Walter Voss (31 August 1908 - 11 August '68) was the founder of Walter Voss, Photo-Kamera-Fabrikation & Feinmechanik, the company that made the Diax line of 35mm cameras in the 1950s, in southern Germany's city of Ulm. The first product of 1946 was a rangefinder named "Photometer", made by a few people in rooms of his dwelling. In 1947 Voss began to make the Diax, production began in 1949, in rooms of Ulm's old fortress. Later the company got a modern industry building for production in Ulm's Neutorstraße 56. In 1957 production and company ceased, after Voss had made c. 100.000 Diax cameras in 10 years.
Cameras
|
| Diax Ia of 1954 and Diax IIb of 1957 image by Wolf (Image rights) |
|
| a Diax of 1949 image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
|
| Reprox 12 image by Jörg Krüger (Image rights) |
|
| accessory viewfinder for use with wide-angle lens image by John-Henry Collinson (Image rights) |
- Diax Ia
- Diax Ib
- Diax II
- Diax IIa
- Diax IIb
- Diax-L-1 (with selenium meter)
- Diax 3a
Accessories
- Photometer (rangefinder)
- Reprox 12 (repro pedestal with built-in 2× enlarging lens)
- accessory viewfinders
Links
- Walter Voss in 'Ulmer-Photogeschichte' (Ulm's photo-history) at Roger Büchel's PhotoAugenblick
- Massimo Bertacchi's page about the Diax (in Italian)
- Voss page at Collection G. Even's site (in French)
- Now again open for the ultimate Diax homepage by Peter Geisler
- Diax pages in Danish language by Leif Johansen
