Sony SAL16105 … DT 16-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lensĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Canon IIF rangefinder – cleaning the viewfinder.1964 the East Germany plant officially changed its name to ORWOġ959 they made their first fully automatic 35mm camera, the Optima.Ģ004 the imaging dept was sold off to become AgfaPhoto but it went bankrupt. Many of the processes where taken and given to Western film companies, like Kodak …. 1928 Ansco merger to make cameras for the American market. That same year AGFA obtains Rietzschel camera works from Bayer, and had their first camera The Standard. That same year AGFA obtains Rietzschel camera works from Bayer, and had their first camera … The Standardġ928 Ansco merger to make cameras for the American market.ġ936 they introduced Agfacolor-Neu … which was the first single colour with single exposure and single film development.ġ945 after WWII the company was forced to breakup. 1925 IG Farben mergers six chemical companiesBASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Momme Andresen, who had developed several developer patents, including Paraphenylenediamine (PPD) and Paramidophenol, and Rodinal (one of my favorite developers).ġ916 they started making stuff for colour photography.ġ925 IG Farben mergers six chemical companies-BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation = AGFA.ġ867 Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a co-founder of the German Chemical Society, and his friend, fellow chemist Carl Alexander Martius started a chemical company.ġ887, AGFA included a photographic department headed by another chemist, Dr.