Gallo
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Carlo Gallo was a camera maker in Florence, Italy, at about the turn of the 20th century. His premises were in Via Sant'Egidio.[1]
Cameras
- Monoreflex, about 1895:[2] 9x12cm wooden box-form reflex camera with cloth focal-plane shutter. The shutter mechanism automatically raises the mirror. Similar to the Soho Reflex or Ensign Reflex (the Monoreflex predates these cameras by several years), but with the lensboard moving inside the body for focusing. Also with a much cruder viewing hood.
The camera has a plate magazine for 12 plates, with a manual changing bag (allowing the newly-exposed plate to be moved to the back of the magazine).
Gallo is credited with the construction of the focal-plane shutter, and other elements, used in a camera (not a reflex) reported by engineer Arnaldo Corsi in 1892.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Found in a summary of bibliographical references to Gallo from the Bulletino della Società Fotografica Italiana at Archivio Fotografico Toscano; the relevant volume is not available online.
- ↑ Gallo Monoreflex with Voigtländer Collinear II f/5.4, sold at the 31st Westlicht Photographica Auction, June 2017.
- ↑ Corsi, Arnaldo: Otturatori a tendina con fessura: applicati presso la lastra sensible (Slit-curtain shutter applied at the sensitive plate). Bulletino della Società Fotografica Italiana, Vol IV (1892) pp50-59, 169-177, and 213-218. Available to view or download in various formats including pdf at the Internet Archive; link is to p176, where Gallo is first mentioned. Gallo is also listed as a member of the SFI in the same volume.
