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Dacora was the brand name of a camera manufacturer based in Reutlingen and Munich .
The company was founded on January 1st, 1946 by Bernhard Dangelmaier in Reutlingen. Until 1954 it was called Dangel Meier & Co. , after DACO - Dangel Meier & Co and in 1960 Dacora camera work Dangelmaier & Co .
In 1969 the company was taken over by the US company Leach Relais und Elektronik and was called Dacora - Kamerawerk GmbH from then on . In 1972 the company headquarters were relocated to Munich. However, production was discontinued that same year.
The plant represented u. a. the following cameras:
- Daco (plastic box)
- Daci (box) (metal box in black, green, red and gray)
- Dacora I and II ( bellows cameras for roll film )
- Digna (also as Ilford Sporti)
- Dacora 66 (also as Ilford Sporty 6)
- Dignette (various models) (also as Ilford Sportsman)
- Super dignette (various models with rangefinder )
- matic
- matic 4D (with 4 triggers , depending on the distance)
- Dacors CC (also as Ilford SM)
- Dacora D101 and D101F (camera for rapid film)
- Dacora D202 (camera for rapid film)
- Dacora D303 (camera for rapid film)
- Dacora D404 (camera for rapid film)
- Instacora (various models that were also available as Ilford)
Cameras
Daci (box)
The Daci was manufactured in 1950; it was offered in black, red, green and gray. The introductory price for the first version in black was DM 7.50.
The Daci is operated with a 6 × 6 cm roll film . The camera offers an eyepiece into which you can see from a distance. The special thing about it is that you see the image in mirror image .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dacora-matic 4D. to: lippisches-kameramuseum.de
literature
- Dacora camera works: Dangelmaier & Co., Reutlingen. In: Hans Tischert: Places of German Work , Volume 11, Europa-Pressedienst, Berlin 1955, pp. 129–135.
