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Produced	Model	Innovative characteristic	Lense	Picture
Jens Poul Andersen	35 mm camera - 1905	This one of the four 35 mm cameras built in 1905 by Jens Poul Andersen in Nellerod, Denmark: The simple lens on the 1905 Andersen 35 mm camera consists of two plano-convex lens elements mounted in a brass barrel with provision for four fixed aperture settings of f/5, f/8, f/10 and f/15. The guillotine shutter provides a single shutter speed of 1/100 sec. The camera body is made of mahogany wood and has the shape of a flat box (somewhat like a brick) with the dimensions of 208 x 45 x 85 mm. The camera weighs 500 grams. It accepts a maximun of 20 m of perforated 35 mm film, enough for apprximately 300 exposures. The format is 24 x 60 mm. Courtesy for text and picture Mr. Rolf Fricke. Made in Denmark	simple lens
Ambrosio Torino	35 mm camera - 1905	The Ambrosio camera would not hold much interest if it was probably the first camera to use 35 mm film, the body is cast aluminium with an oxidized silver plated brass cover. The lens is removable. It is a 50 mm Zeiss-Kraus anastigmat with an iris diaphragm. The guillotine shutter is tensioned on the front and has only one speed and B. The camera is designed for 100 frames 45mm x 30mm on unperforated cine film with a sensor counter. At that time the makers of film left it to the user to perforate his own film according to his own preference, Lumiere or Edison. A very original mechanism monitors the progress of the film. A mini punch cuts out a small hole on the edge of the film in the middle of the frame. A small spring loaded plunger in advance of the film snaps into the hole stopping the advance of the film. The only other known camera bears the inscription "Ambrosio Torino" and the number 14 and has a Reichert lens."Courtesy for text and picture Mr. Arnaud SAUDAX. Made in Italy	50 mm Zeiss-Kraus anastigmat
Goertz ?	Goertz_prototype - 1905/1910	All-Metal Camera, c. 1905–10 The Forerunner of all forerunner cameras! Presumably produced by Goerz in Berlin, size 24 x 32 mm, metal focal plane shutter (not working), body marked no. "D. H N.36" and "36" inside, rangefinder marked: "C.P. Goerz, Berlin". Size of the camera: width 9 ½ in. x height 4 1/3 in., weight 2,66 kg. Very early 35mm still camera and Leica forerunner.	C.P. Goerz, Berlin, Serie C No. 00, 1:4,5.
Mollier & Demaison	prototipo Le Cent Vue mod.1 - 1908	Metal camera for 35mm film, advance film by a lever, 50 pictures size 23 x 26 mm. Made in france	Hermagis 4,5/50 mm
Mollier & Demaison	Le Cent Vue mod.1 - 1909	VERY RARE 18x24mm CAMERA, FIRST VERTICALLY TYPE. Camera was invented by Etienne Mollier in 1909/1910, but only a few copies have been made (and sold without sucess ...). He won the golden médal of the "Concours Lepine" the same year with this invention. I have this information from the memoir of Mollier, which has just been published under the title "Memoirs of a inventor "edition of the Harmattan. Thanks for these infomations to ERIC HURTADO Made in France	Zeiss TESSAR 3,5/4cm
George P.Smith	Smith - 1912	really rare US camera made in Missouri. First with 24x36 format. Made in USA	don't know
Herbert & Huesgen, New Ideas Mfg. Co.	Tourist Multiple - 1913	Vertically styled body, leather covered, Tourist Multiple became the first commercially produced 35mm camera to be sold (although it had been on the market sometime toward the end of 1913), probably about 1000 cameras were ever made (McKeown, 1994). It contained a 50 foot magazine with enough film for 750 half frame exposures 18x24mm, shutter 40 - 200. There was also a multiple projector (film strip) available for $100.00. Made in USA	Zeiss Tessar Series Ic 1:3.5/50 or Goerz Hypar f3.5, or Steinheil Triplar f2.5.
Jules Richard	Homeos - 1914	the first 35mm camera was the "Homeos" (1913) a year before Oskar Barnack's "UR" prototype. And it was 1925 before the first production Leica hit the market, fixed focus, diapphragm: f/4.5, f/6.3, f/8, f/10 e f/20 Made in France	Krauss Tessar 1:4.5/28
Multi-Speed (New York)	Simplex Multi-Exposure - 1914	Historic 1st Production 24x36 Full Frame 35mm Camera. Multi-speed shutter Compound 00, 1/300, 800 exposures 18x24 or 400 24x36 in 3 different versions: only half format, only full format and a Simplex Special with dual full frame and half frame. The rarest pre-Leica and the most valuable today 35mm camera.... Five, possibly six are known, maybe only 27 producet at all. Made in USA	Baush&lomb Zeiss Tessar 1:3.5/50
E.Suter	E.Suter prototype - ?	E. Suter, Bâle. Reporter camera for 250 pictures, image size 24 x 24 mm, shutter "Gitzo" 1/25–1/100 sec., B + T. A very interesting characteristic is its ringing bell sound at each picture taken.E. Suter was a lens and camera maker, founded in 1878 in Basel, Switzerland. It was the first factory size camera business in Switzerland. Made in Switzerland	Staeble Doppel-Anastigmat Tessaplast 5,5/60
Schoenander	Schoenander - ?	Special 35mm camera for 375 pictures 24x24mm on 9m special cassetes. A very interesting characteristic is its ringing bell sound at each picture taken. Made in Sweden	Leitz 1,5/5cm Xenon Lens
Ernst Leitz	UR Leica - 1914	Oskar Barnack works on the design of a camera for 35 mm motion picture film. The result materializes early in 1914 with the legendary "Ur LEICA", vindicating the concept "small negative large pictures". Made in Germany
Levy Roth	Minnigraph type A - 1915	50 exposures 18x24 on 35mm film in special cassettes. The first 35 mm camera made in Europe. Made in Austria	Anastigmat 1:3.5/54
Levy Roth	Minnigraph type B - 1915	50 exposures 18x24 on 35mm film in special cassettes. Made in Austria	Anastigmat 1:3.5/54
Kodak	00 Cartridge Premo - 1916	Six exposure roll film, 32x44 mm format box camera, the first in Kodak for little format. Made in USA	not know
FACT	Autocinephot - 1918	Original camera planned from Tartara and named Autocinephot, equipped with a spring motor and can carry out seven various functions, camera, cinema camera, floodlight, magnifier etc. The shutter like a cross of Malta said about however the main employment like cinema camera rather than as camera very soon the licence comes yielded the French manufacturer André Debrie who producted it with the Sept name. Made in Italy
Novaya Shkola	Cyclocamera - 1920	Russian 35-mm Box-type Camera "Cyclocamera", c. 1920 Manufacturer "Novaya Shkola, Leningrad", 24 x 24 mm, leatherette-covered wooden body. Monocular lens 9/38 mm Fix Focus: Sector shutter 1/30 and B, reflex viewfinder. The 35-mm film could be loaded in dark-room only. This is the only one known worldwide. Made in USSR	9/38 mm Fix Focus
Hewit-Beaufort	Hewit-Beaufort - 1921	On october 26, 1921, mr.Hewit and mr.Beaufort in London done a brevet (number 28.455) for a camera that used cine-film, with film advance and cocking shutter done to prevent double exposure (very similar to Tenax, adopted many years after by Zeiss), with the possibility to charge film in light by special cartridge. Format 23x31mm, central shutter from 1sec to 1/300, little reflex finder and after Albada-galileian, the project was abandoned after few years. Made in England	Cook f3.1/50
Morsolin	Argus - 1921	In the 1921 Francesco Morsolin introduces the Argus camera that employs 35mm perforated film and had an autonomy of about one hundred of format negatives 30x45mm. The camera comes constructed in a limited pieces number, perhaps only five hundred, but Paris camera maker Krauss produced e really similar camera: Eka ! Made in Italy	Tessar 1:4.5/50, Koritska
Goerz	Prototype	Multiformat camera, it's possible to set camera to take 18x24 or 24x24 or 24x36 pictures. Made in Germany	Goertz
Victor Houssin	Le Phototank - 1922	A strange project by french Henri Bayle, 50 exposure 18x24mm on 35mm. Made in France	Berthiot Stellor 1:3.5/50
Dr. Rudolph	Cosmos 35 - 1922	Dr. Rudolph's Spezial-Kamera Cosmos 35, c. 1922 Green leathered metal camera, dimensions without lens and fittings 65 x 105 x 38 mm. Exceptionally important in several respects: 1) An early "Plasmat 2/35", no. 251.373. The Plasmat was the "Kino-Plasmat" for 35 mm film, here in a testing camera for the whole 35 mm size. Slight corner vignetting visible. - 2) Dr. Rudolph as manufacturer. He left the Zeiss company already in 1920, not least because of differences of opinion about the Plasmat production. - 3) Very early German 35 mm camera. - 4) Very unusual shutter with 7 sec. delayed action! - 5) Fast lens. Lens speed of 1:2 was sensationally. - 6) Classic modern angular shaped camera design, with green leathering. - Worldwide the only known "Cosmos 35". Made in Germany	Plasmat 2/35
Steinheil	Test Camera - 1922	Test Camera Steinheil. c. 1922 Extremely early camera for 35 mm. Wooden body, leathered, top plates of aluminium, inner brass body. Extremely fast Steinheil "Cassar 2,5/7,5 cm", No. 288.433. No other Steinheil lens 2,5/7,5 cm is known! Ibsor shutter. With 2 optical viewfinders and screen focusing (without screen). One finder glass cracked. According to Dr. Loher a prototype. Top rarity! This is a competition product to "Minigraph". Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection Made in Germany	Cassar 2,5/7,5
Prototype	Kinar	35mm view finder camera with Makro-Plasmat 2,7/5cm lens . Made in Germany	Makro-Plasmat 2,7/5cm
Mentor-Werke	Kamera Rapid Night-Camera - 1922	Fantastic Early Night Camera »Kamera Rapid« (Prototype), from Dresden. Apparently this is a special design and development. With extraordinarily fast "Caleinar 1:1,5/6 cm" lens. Today only one piece known world-wide!". Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection Made in Germany	Caleinar 1:1,5/6 cm
Ernemann	Prototype	No news about this camera, from lens it appears manufactured by Ernemann. Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection Made in Germany	?? cm
Ernemann	Prototype	No news about this wonderful camera, from lens it appears manufactured by Ernemann. Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection Made in Germany	?? cm
?	Prototype	Il coperchio superiore e inferiore sembra in alluminio mentre il dorso non incernierato si fissa sul corpo a pressione con una clip. La vulcanite che ricopre il corpo è di ottima fattura e molti particolari che si evincono dalle foto ( es. bottone di avanzamento e di riavvolgimento, forma della finestrella del contapose etc ) fanno pensare a un progetto nato non in cantina ma in un laboratorio ben attrezzato. The upper and lower lids appear in aluminum while the back swing is not fixed on the pressure with a clip. The vulcanite covering the body is well made and a lot of details that can be inferred from the photos (eg. Knob forward and rewind, the shape of the window frame counter etc) suggest a project born not in the basement but in a well-equipped laboratory . Made in ?	F.Koristka cine sideran f.3,3 F 50 mm
Seischab	Esco - 1922	Another early half-frame. Speeds from 1 - to 1/300. 400 17x24 pictures. 2 versions, with dial-set compur or with ring-set, like Leica Compur. Made in Germany	Steinheil Anastigmat-Cassar 3,5/35
Werke Simons & Co.	Sico - 1923	Dark brown wooden body with brass trim. The Sico takes number 25 30x40mm exposures on unperforated 35mm paper-backed rollfilm. Iris diaphram to f22. Dial Compur shutter 1-300. An unusual variation has leather-covered body, slightly larger in size, and different controls. Made in Switzerland	Dagor f6.8 Double Anastigmat or Sico f3.5 Rüdersdorf Anastigmat
Werke Simons & Co.	Sico 2 - 1923	Like the Sico but leather covered and with a little different design, Compur shutter 1-300. Made in Switzerland	Dagor f6.8 Double Anastigmat or Sico f3.5 Rüdersdorf Anastigmat
E. Guérin & Cie.	Furet Camera ver.1 - 1923	Small, early 35mm camera for 25 exposures 24 x 36mm using special cassettes. This is the smallest of the pre-Leica 0 35mm cameras. Made in France	Hermagis Anastigmat 1:4.5/40
E. Guérin & Cie.	Furet Camera ver.2 - 1924	different advance film lever. Made in France	Hermagis Anastigmat 1:4.5/40
E. Guérin & Cie.	Furet Camera ver. Compur - 1928	Compur shutter. matricule very low: 8 Made in France	Berthiot Stellor Series 1 1:3.5/44
Debrie	Sept Camera - 1923	Spring driven motor camera for still pictures, sequential pictures or movies. When a circular lid was removed from the back, the camera could be placed in front of a light source and act as a movie projector. 18x24mm on 35mm in special 5m cartridges. Made in France	Roussel Stylor f3.5/50
Ernst Leitz	Leica 0 - 1923	Preproduction series of 31 cameras, Serial #100-130, hand-made in 1923 & 1924. Since the focal plane shutter was not self capping on the first seven examples, they required the use of a lens cap which was attached with a cord to a small bracket on the camera body. This feature was retained on the second batch even though they had a self-capping shutter. The viewfinder (either folding or telescoping type) is located directly above the lens. Made in Germany	Leitz Anastigmat f 3.5/50
Krauss	Eka ver.1 - 1924	Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. Helical focusing. The first version has frontal plate Chrome with "flame" on chrome. Different logo position on top, Lense different form second version. Made in France	Krauss Tessar 1:4.5/50
Krauss	Eka ver.1 - 1924	Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. The first version has frontal plate Chrome with "flame" on chrome. probably adapted in factory for industrial use. the accessory is connected to focusing lense and allow to control on matt glass the correct focus. Made in France	Krauss Tessar 1:3.5/50
Krauss	Eka ver.2 - 1925	Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. This version has frontal plate black without "flame". Made in France	Krauss Tessar 1:3.5/50
Van Remorteel	Photorette - 1924	Negative size 32x30mm on 35mm film. Simple shutter. Courtesy for text and picture of Mr. Peter http://www.oldcameras.at Made in Austria	Laak POLYNAR 6,8/42mm, no diaphragm,
LA CINESCOPIE	Photoscopic (vers.1) - 1924	Advance film by a lever like Amourette, Pronto shutter, frame Size: 24x24mm, 50 pictures, only 100 pieces made. Made in Belgium	O.I.P.Gand Labor 3.5/45

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