Cinpiasa 16 Mm Camera from Siemens, 1934

Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872 - 1941) is the founder of the company that was born in 1919 as a manufacturer of bulbs. The name Osram, which will become very well -known, is a composition of the words Osmium and Wolfram. . In 1932, which has now become a giant, the production of cameras begins. The first was a 16mm for amateurs. In 1936 the production of 8mm camera began in 1936: so, on the other hand, they dictated the rules of the market then. The first camera, which came out of the "Wernerwerk" factory in Berlin, were Heavy, solid and square, covered with black skin. The feature studied by the manufacturer was to produce cartridge, containing the film (15 meters in length), which remained owned by Siemens even after the purchase, and which they had to be shipped to the home laboratories for the processing process. They then returned to the customer ready for viewing with the projectors. At the performance of Leipzig, held in 1938, Siemens presented model F II, equipped with a "transfokator". It was the first model in the world of camera equipped with the objective with the zoom, inside the camera. We are able to be the "Vario-Glaukar f/2.8 25-80mm" bush, which was coupled with a multifocal viewfinder, which was able to simulate the Different focal lengths. Prose to the Second World War, Siemens introduced two models with films from Double-8. One of the two, the 8-R, was equipped with a crank that also served to bring the film back.