{"id":3820,"date":"2022-01-15T05:26:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2022-01-15T05:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:27:35","slug":"franka-kamerawerk-rolfix-1938-folding-camera-photomuse-collection-2014-donation-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/15\/franka-kamerawerk-rolfix-1938-folding-camera-photomuse-collection-2014-donation-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Franka Kamerawerk Rolfix 1938, Folding Camera, PhotoMuse Collection, 2014, Donation of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source &#8211; Herbert Ascherman Collection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Franka Rolfix was a series of self-erecting folding cameras for type No. 120 film rolls. It was launched in 1935. The series ended in 1954. All Rolfix cameras were designed for &#8220;full&#8221; medium format 6 x 9 cm, but several variants had the option for 4.5x6cm (half-frame) image format or the 6&#215;6 image format. Franka Kamerawerk was a manufacturer of camera equipment situated in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded by Franz Vyskocil in 1909. The company was known under several names during its life: Vysko-Fabrik Franz Vyskocil; Weigand &amp; Vyskocil; Frankonia-Kamerawerk; Hogaschwerk; Franka-Kamerawerk. By 1958 Franka had 154 employees and production of 650,000 cameras. In 1962 Franka was sold to Henry Wirgin (Wirgin) and camera production ceased in 1967. Franka Rolfix is a simple dual format folding camera. It is a pre-war model. The lens seems to have no coating and uncoated lenses are quite rare in the post war folding cameras. This model was also called Hapo 5 , when it was sold by Hans Porst. The lens is Velostigmat 1:6.3 \/105mm and the shutter is Pronto (Gauthier G.m.b.H Calmbach) T, B, 1\/25 &#8211; 1\/125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Franka Rolfix was a series of self-erecting folding cameras for type No. 120 film rolls. It was launched in 1935. The series ended in 1954. All Rolfix cameras were designed for &#8220;full&#8221; medium format 6 x 9 cm, but several variants had the option for 4.5x6cm (half-frame) image format or the 6&#215;6 image format.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}