Alpa is a designer and manufacturer company which designs high-end medium-format cameras (Website alpa.ch). The current owners bought the company name after the bankruptcy of the original company, known for producing 35 mm SLR cameras.
Alpa is a designer and manufacturer company which designs high-end medium-format cameras (Website alpa.ch). The current owners bought the company name after the bankruptcy of the original company, known for producing 35 mm SLR cameras.
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Bolex International S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. Originally Bol, the company was founded in 1925 by Charles Haccius and Jacques Bogopolsky (aka Bolsey or Boolsky), the company's name having been derived from Bogopolsky's name. In 1923 he presented the Cinégraphe Bol at the Geneva fair, a reversible apparatus for taking, printing, and projecting pictures on 35 mm film. He later designed a camera for Alpa of Ballaigues in the late 1930s.