Monday, October 27, 2008

New Ideas (Herbert & Huesgen): Tourist Multiple



When: 1913
Why: Officially first commercially produced 35mm film camera.


It did not gain a lot of popularity like "Leica I", but New Ideas Manufacturing (part of a Herbert & Huesgen, American company) produced almost 1000 cameras. And... Hold your breath: it was capable of taking 750 exposures per one film load. Body looked like a movie camera.

Several months later, the first 35mm stereo camera was manufactured by Jules Richard (France). It was "Homeos" which will be covered in one of the next posts.

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