Wünsche

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In the year 1887 Emil Wünsche founded a shop for photographic articles in Hamburg. The own products of the shop were produced in a plant in Reick near Dresden. 1898 the company became the Emil Wünsche Aktiengesellschaft für photographische Industrie Reick (Wünsche AG). In 1902 Louis Lang became CEO.

Cameras

Camera industry in Dresden
Balda | Certo | Eho-Altissa | Eichapfel | Ernemann | Feinmess | Heyde | Hamaphot | Huth | Hüttig | ICA | Ihagee | Kochmann | Kerman | KW | Eugen Loeber | Ludwig | Mentor | Merkel | Meyer | Mimosa | Pentacon | Richter | Sommer | Stübiger | Unger & Hoffmann | Werner | Wünsche | Zeiss Ikon | Zeh
Camera distributors in Dresden
Stöckig
Camera industry in Freital
Beier | Pouva | Stein & Binnewerg | Thowe | Welta
  • Mars-Kamera

So-called detective camera made of mahogany. It contains 12 plates of 9x12 cm. Brass-lens Aplanat 130mm f8. Rotary shutter. The plates are moved to and from in the wooden plateholder on top of the camera. [1]

  • mirror camera Bosco
  • mirror camera Ada
  • reflex camera Reicka

and lots of plate and rollfilm cameras, so many different types that the company had to associate with other camera makers in the merger that yielded ICA in 1909.