Sida GmbH
Sida Gesellschaft für photographische Apparate mbH was a German camera-maker in the 1930s, which also produced its cameras in several other European countries. The company was founded in 1934 by Fritz Kaftanski in Berlin, but because of anti-Jewish laws in Germany at that time, the company was for official purposes owned by his associate Karl Gumpel. The company was sold in 1935.
Cameras
- Sida (1936)[1]: metal-bodied viewfinder camera for 25x25-mm images on special, unperforated 35mm roll-film.
- Sida Standard (1938)[1]: later, metal-bodied version of the Sida; hardly changed.
- Sida Extra (1938)[1]: later, plastic-bodied version of the Sida.
- Turf (1938-9)[1]: a bakelite-bodied folder for 4.5x6-cm exposures on special roll-film.
- Turf Extra (1939)[1]: a new version of the Turf, now for 120 film.
- Turf 40; a version of the Turf designed for 6x9-cm exposures, but not actually made.[1]
Notes
| Camera industry in Berlin |
| Agfa | Amigo | Astro Berlin | Bermpohl | Bopp | B+W | Foth | Goerz | Grass & Worff | Levy-Roth | Ernst Lorenz | Plasmat | Rudolph | Rothgiesser & Schlossmann | Rüdersdorf | Schulze & Billerbeck | Sida | Stegemann | Romain Talbot |
Links
- Fritz Kaftanski page at Fotofex Camera Page
- Sida cameras at Collection Appareils (in French)
