Rollei
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Rollei is a German manufacturer of optical instruments founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras.
Rolleiflex medium format camera.
Rollei in Braunschweig (Salzdahlumer Straße)
Advertisement from 1920s
Rolleicord
Voigtländer
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Voigtländer was a significant long-established company within the optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, and today continues as a trademark for a range of photograph
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…Rollei based on designs by Zeiss, and occasionally lenses made by Japanese manufacturers. While Reinhold Heidecke was working as a production manager at Voigtländer in Braunschweig around 1916, he got the idea to manufacture a new type of roll-film camera. However, the company rejected his proposal because they…
Replica of the world's first all-metal camera from 1840, the daguerreotype camera No. 84 Voigtländer & Son in Vienna, at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The revolutionary lens is light-fast so that exposure time could be reduced to around one minute.
Photo of Johann Christoph Voigtländer's grandson: Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Ritter von Voigtländer (November 17, 1812 in Vienna – April 7, 1878 in Braunschweig). Portrait photo on daguerreotype by Johann Baptist Isenring, ca. 1843
Share of the Voigtländer & Sohn AG, issued September 1925
Former headquarters and production site of Voigtländer, at Campe-Straße in Braunschweig, Germany