Plaubel

Plaubel Makina press camera from year 1912 with standard Plaubel Anticomar 7.5cm f3 lens, format 4.5x6cm film plate

Plaubel is a German camera maker, founded in November, 1902, by Hugo Schrader, who learned the technology of cameras and lenses as an apprentice at Voigtländer in Braunschweig in the late 1800s before being employed by a Frankfurt camera and lens manufacturer and distributor, Dr. R. Krügener, whose daughter he married. Hugo Schrader and his wife elected to open their own business, Plaubel & Co., as distributors and makers of cameras and lenses, naming it after his brother-in-law because he thought Plaubel was easier to remember than Schrader.

Its first product catalog was published for Christmas of 1902 and included cameras of all sizes and makes plus many accessories. In 1912 Hugo Schrader introduced the first Plaubel Makina, a compact bellows camera with a unique scissors-struts design. It evolved into a legendary press camera before production was stopped 48 years later. In 1908 the Schraders had a son, Goetz, who was to become the future mainstay of the firm. He entered Plaubel in 1925 as an apprentice and became head of the technical department and in charge of camera development in 1930. A year later he became co-owner with his father. After the death of Hugo Schrader in 1940, Goetz Schrader took over the management of the company.

During World War II Plaubel was converted to manufacture precision military gear but was bombed and seriously damaged in 1944. After World War II ended in 1945, Schrader designed and produced a number of large-format Peco monorail studio view cameras. In 1961 Plaubel introduced the advanced Makiflex and Pecoflex, 9x9cm/6x9cm/6x6cm SLR cameras, with focal-plane shutters and revolving backs,[1][2] and (together with the American firm Burleigh Brooks) the remarkable Veriwide 100, a 6x10cm roll-film viewfinder camera with a fixed ultra-wide lens. In 1975, Schrader sold the company to the Japanese Kimio Doi Group. Plaubel is especially known for their 6x7 Plaubel Makina roll film cameras. In the middle of 1970's, the unique Makina scissors-strut camera was succeeded by a Japanese-built Makina 6x7 with Nikkor lens, first shown in exhibition in 1977 and released in 1978. The wide-angle "sister", Makina W67 came in 1982. Later the type changed to 670, adding modifications like the 220 film capability and a hot shoe. The company still services and repairs these cameras today but stopped production of the Makina 6x7 in 1986. Goetz Schrader died in 1997 but Plaubel continues to produce large format monorail cameras like the Peco Profia for 4×5, 5×7 and 8×10 inch films as well as smaller formats using adaptors. They also make a 6×9 cm/2-14x3-1/4 inch medium-format Peco monorail view camera for digital and roll film photography (PL69D).[3][4]

Cameras

Film plates or cut film

Studio View Cameras

4.5×6 strut folding

6.5×9 strut folding

With adaptors for 120 film.

45×107mm stereo strut folding

6×13 stereo strut folding

roll film (120 & 220)

4.5×6 folding

6×6 folding

6×7 strut folding

6×9 view finder

6×9 monorail view cameras

6×10 Wide-Angle Camera

Large Single Lens Reflex

127 film

35mm film

16mm film

Lenses

References

  1. ↑ Makiflex with 18 cm f/4.5 CZJ Tessar, sold at Christie's in London in September 1999.
  2. ↑ Makiflex (or perhaps a Makiflex Standard; this example seems to lack one of the dial controls of the camera at Christie's), with lenses on standard and extended lens-plates, sold at the May 2004 Westlicht Photographica Auction.
  3. ↑ "Company website retrieved September 2012".
  4. ↑ "Plaubel - cameras from Frankfurt". Photoscala Fotomagazin from 08. May 2009.
  5. ↑ Plaubel factory 1976 product specifications sheets and literature
  6. ↑ "Die Peco und ihre Anwendungsgebiete", von Dr. Ralph Weizaecker, 1960, 66 pages, Plaubel Feinmechanik und Optik, Frankfurt am Main 13
  7. ↑ Plaubel German language product and price list, valid Jan. 1, 2012, www.Plaubel.com.Plaubel.PDF
  8. ↑ Burleigh Brooks advertisements, 1960
  9. ↑ Product literature published 1963 by Plaubel Feinmechanik und Optik, Frankfurt am Main West 13

External links

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French

German

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