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The successful "Imperial Triple Extension" model was introduced in 1913 and continued in production until the 1930s. During the First World War, the company produced a number of cameras for military use, including the Mark III Hythe gun camera. In 1921, the company merged with several others to form Amalgamated Photographic Manufacturers.
German and Italian cameras generally used 13×18 cm plates. France standardized on the advanced deMaria cameras of various configurations. For the last two years of the war, Britain used almost exclusively the 35-pound (16 kg), semi-automatic, prop-driven L camera. As was the case for airplanes, the U.S. made use of French and British cameras.
There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to ...
The German science, trade and industry magazine Prometheus, in a 1905 article about aerial photography from tethered balloons and kites, notes their recent use during the Russo-Japanese War when the Russian Topographical Institute in St. Petersburg had the Heinrich Ernemann Camera Manufacturing Company build special equipment for automatic ...
Aeroscope (1910) Geoffrey Malins with aeroscope camera during World War I Aeroscope was a type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909 (French patent from 10 April 1909) and built in England since 1911, [1] at first by Newman & Sinclair, [2] and from 1912 by Cherry Kearton Limited.
This is a list of digital camera brands.Former and current brands are included in this list. With some of the brands, the name is licensed from another company, or acquired after the bankruptcy of an older photographic equipment company.
Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic, 1947. Graflex was a manufacturer that gave its brand name to several camera models.. The company was founded as the Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company in New York City in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a metal working factory, manufacturing gas light fixtures, chandeliers, bicycles and eventually, cameras.
The Kodak 35 was introduced in 1938 as the first US manufactured 35 mm camera from Eastman Kodak Company.It was developed in Rochester, New York when it became likely that imports from the Kodak AG factory in Germany could be disrupted by war.