Beroflex
| Beroflex camera film stock company
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat | Berlin , Bad Kissingen , Germany |
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The Beroflex Camera Film Aktiengesellschaft was a resident of Berlin and Bad Kissingen trading company that primarily photo equipment from the GDR in West Germany sold. Until 1990, Beroflex was the most important importer of the Praktica brand SLR cameras manufactured by Pentacon to West Germany. The films of the "Ost-Agfa" ORWO were also distributed through Beroflex. The company was one of the leading wholesalers in the photographic industry in the 1980s thanks to the competitive prices for cameras - also in comparison with the Far Eastern competition at the time. The then Beroflex managing director Heinrich Manderman bought a number of traditional companies in the German optical industry in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, Mandermann was the (temporary) owner of Rollei and ORWO. Even today (2011) Schneider Kreuznach and Pentacon GmbH belong to the Mandermann family group.
Beroflex is also a word mark registered under the number 388836 from 1991 to 2011 and deposited by Beroflex AG .
Company history
In 1969 Beroflex was founded by the German sales partners of the GDR company Kombinat VEB Pentacon , Dresden. The management was with two shareholders, Heinrich Manderman and Herbert Köhler. Beroflex AG was entered in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich on November 27, 1969 . The purpose of Beroflex AG was to manufacture, trade, import and export phototechnical and photochemical products.
The company name of Beroflex AG was changed to ABZ Holding AG , Freienstein, in January 1992 , later to DSI Holding AG , which was again domiciled in Zurich. In December 1996 the Zurich District Court declared DSI Holding bankrupt; the company was dissolved. The bankruptcy proceedings were discontinued in May 1997 for lack of assets. In 2000 the DSI Holding AG was deleted in liquidation . The holding company had a capital of 1 million Swiss francs.
Articles and products
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In 1986 Beroflex had more than 850 articles in its range, some of which were produced by political prisoners in the GDR.
In addition to Pentacon products, there were also some other items, including a. Flash units. The very reasonably priced Beroflex 5.6 / 300 mm, 6.3 / 400 mm and, above all, 8.0 / 500 mm telephoto lenses , known as the “ surprise bag ”, became particularly well known. However, these lenses came from Far Eastern production. The own brand "Beroquick" stood for a small format viewfinder camera, actually a "Beirette" of VEB Kamerawerke Freital .
Camera lenses
Prime lenses
- Auto-Beroflex 2.8 / 28 mm (M42, Canon FD) (also MC)
- Beroflex Auto WW 2.8 / 35 mm (M42, Canon EF)
- Beroflex Auto 2.8 / 50 mm (No. 65705)
- Auto Beroflex 2.8 / 100 (No 721078)
- Auto Beroflex 1.8 / 135 (M42)
- Auto-Beroflex 2.8 / 135 mm (Canon FD, Exa, M42)
- Auto-Beroflex-Ultra 1.4 / 55mm (M42)
- Beroflex 2.8 / 24 mm (M42) (filter thread 55 mm)
- Beroflex 3.3 / 200mm (M42) (filter thread 67mm)
- Beroflex 3.5 / 200mm (M42) (filter thread 62mm)
- Beroflex 4.5 / 300 mm (M42)
- Beroflex 5,6 / 300 mm (M42)
- Beroflex 6.3 / 400 mm (M42)
- Beroflex 8.0 / 500 mm (M42, T2)
Zoom lenses
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 3.5-4.5 / 24-42 mm (Pentax K)
- Auto-Beroflex wide-angle zoom 3.5-4.5 / 28-50 mm
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 3.5-4.5 / 28-70 mm (Praktica B)
- Auto-Beroflex MC 3.5-4.5 / 28-80 mm
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 3.5-4.5 / 35-70 mm (Praktica B, M42)
- Beroflex MC Auto Macro Zoom 3.5-4.9 / 28-105 mm (M42)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 3.9 / 80-200 mm (M42, Praktica B)
- Beroflex Auto Zoom 3.8 / 70-210 Macro MC (M42)
- Beroflex Auto Zoom 3.8 / 85-205 (M42)
- Beroflex Auto Zoom 3.8 / 85-210 Macro (Minolta)
- Beroflex MC 4-5.6 / 70-210 mm (Praktica B)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 4.5 / 75-200 mm Macro (Pentax PK)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 4.5 / 80-200 mm Macro (Minolta)
- Beroflex MC 1: 4.5-5.2 / 80-200mm (M42)
- Beroflex MC Zoom 4.5-5.6 / 80-200 mm MACRO (M42)
- Beroflex Zoom Auto MC 4.5 / 80-200 mm (Contax / Yashica C / Y)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 3.5-4.3 / 35-100 mm Macro (Minolta)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 4,5 / 85-210 (M42)
- Beroflex MC Auto Zoom 5.6 / 100-300 (M42)
Autofocus
- Beroflex AF 3.5-4.5 / 28-70 mm (Nikon F, Minolta A)
- Beroflex AF 4-5.6 / 70-210 mm (Nikon F, Minolta A)
converter
- Beroflex Auto Tele Converter 2x MC (Pentax K)
- Beroflex Auto 3x Converter (M42)
Cameras
compact cameras
The first series of Beroquick cameras was identical to the corresponding models of the Beirette from Freitaler Kamerawerke Beier .
- Beroquick SL 125 ( Meritar 2.9 / 45 mm)
- Beroquick KB 135 (Meritar 2.8 / 45 mm)
- Beroquick Electronic (Meritar 2.8 / 42 mm)
- Beroflex B 600
- Beroflex B 800AF
- Beroflex B 1000
- Beroflex B-1500A
- Beroflex B-2000 Tele-Wide
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.photoscala.de/Artikel/Mehr-Klasse-als-Masse-Kamera-Werk-Dresden
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Praktica-Museum, accessed April 29, 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.monetas.ch/htm/655/de/SHAB-Publikationen-DSI-Holding-AG-in-Liquidation.htm?subj=119539&MONETAS=3ac422a403e6834e841ccda47f87c5c9
- ↑ http://databot.ch/DSI-Holding-AG-in-Liquidation-Zurich-CH2039029642.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Scanned document on the website of Andreas Schmidt
- ↑ The name was coined by WE Schön in 1980 in a comparison test in the magazine Color Foto .
- ↑ http://www.beroflex.de/
- ↑ http://www.beier-kamera.de/html/kleinbildkameras_beroflex.html
- ↑ http://www.fotografische.de/kameras/beroquick-electronic
- ↑ Picture credits at the Aperture and Time Forum
- ↑ Photo credit on flickr!
- ↑ Photo credit on flickr
- ↑ Photo credit on flickr
- ^ Museum-digital, accessed April 29, 2011
- ↑ Photo credit on flickr!
- ^ Museum-digital, accessed April 29, 2011
