Arca Swiss

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Arca Swiss is a French maker of view cameras, based in Besançon, France. The company was founded in Zurich in the 1920s as Alfred Oschwald & Company, an engineering workshop that repaired cameras. Alfred Oschwald helped to design and make the Sinar Norma. His sons, Max and Alfred Jr. formed Oschwald Brothers in the 1950s. Max had helped his father with their work for Sinar, while Alfred Jr. had worked with Plaubel. Oschwald Brothers was eventually renamed Arca Swiss; but moved to France in the 1990s. Notes at Arca Swiss USA's About us page suggest this was in part for the benefits of being located within the EU, and in part to be close to 'the heart of the European center of micro-techniques';[1] presumably a reference to the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques, a prestigious engineering college in Besançon.

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