Szabad
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Szilárd Szabad (29/9/1907 - 20/2/1994)[1] was a large-format camera maker between 1945 and 1962. He was a Hungarian, but moved to Sweden in 1936 to study engineering. He set up a workshop which, among other work, repaired dark-slides for studio cameras, and eventually began making cameras himself. These were mostly sold in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, though some were exported to the USA.
Cameras
- Folding view cameras: 9x12cm/4x5-inch,[2][3] 13x18cm/5x7-inch,[4][5] and 18x24cm/8x10-inch;[6] The front and rear standard panels are mostly wooden, and each is mounted in an aluminium U-shaped yoke. In the 4x5-inch examples cited, the mounting of the standard is of machined aluminium, while the 5x7-inch cameras include more wooden elements. The standards are racked along a broad wooden bed or rail. To fold the camera, both standards are moved onto one end of the rail, and the remainder folds up in front of the standards (or behind; the cited examples differ; it appears the camera can be mounted on the rail either way round).
- Stereo camera, at least in 5x7-inch size.[7][8] Teak-wood body with aluminium front plate. Two separate bellows, allowing the separation of the lenses to be altered.
Notes
- ↑ Szilárd Szabad at Swedish Wikipedia.
- ↑ 4x5-inch camera, serial no.35 of black-stained wood and aluminium with green bellows, with Rodenstock 11cm f/12 Weitwinkel-Perigon in Compur-Rapid shutter, with bed extension, sold at the LP Foto auction, 29 June 2024.
- ↑ 4x5-inch camera, serial no.1121, black wood and bellows, with C.P. Goerz 168mm f/6.8 Dagor in dial-set Compur shutter; also sold at the same auction.
- ↑ 5x7-inch Szabad camera, with more wooden parts in the standard mountings than the above-cited cameras; sold by LP Foto in December 2020.
- ↑ 5x7-inch camera, varnished wood, formerly in the stock of the Finnish dealer Kamerastore.
- ↑ 8x10-inch camera, black wood and bellows, also formerly held by Kamerastore.
- ↑ Szabad 5x7-inch stereo camera, with Rodenstock 150mm f/9 Apo Ronar lenses; sold by Flints in November 2023.
- ↑ The same camera was sold by LP Foto in April 2019. The auctioneer suggested it may be unique; perhaps a prototype.
