Voss
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| 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
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| Diax Ia of 1954 and Diax IIb of 1957 image by Wolf (Image rights) |
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| a Diax of 1949 image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
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| Reprox 12 image by Jörg Krüger (Image rights) |
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| 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
