German Camera Museum
 German Camera Museum (logo) in Plech |
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| place | Plech |
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Technology museum
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| opening | 2011 |
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Kurt Tauber
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The German Camera Museum is a technology museum in Bavaria Plech , district Bayreuth . The first rooms were open to the public from December 4, 2011, and for the opening ceremony on May 26, 2012 (Whit Saturday), the exhibition space was expanded to over 250 square meters on the upper floor of the primary school in Plech. The permanent exhibition shows photographic articles from all over the world, which are supplemented by regular special exhibitions. The entire museum has been barrier-free thanks to an external elevator since September 2017. Several photo exhibitions per year, an international photo and film exchange (always on the second Sunday after Pentecost) and the Plecher Photo Days with exhibitions, workshops and special activities round off the museum's program.
history
The founder and initiator is the journalist and photographer Kurt Tauber from Plecher:
- May 10, 1951 born in Dorfprozelten am Main
- 1970 Abitur in Miltenberg am Main
- 1970 to 1973 Donaukurier
- 1974 to 1983 Nürnberger Nachrichten
- 1984 to 2010 North Bavarian Courier
- 1985 Konrad Adenauer Prize for local journalists (1st prize)
He has been collecting photographic exhibits of all kinds for over 30 years, which until 2011 were only shown in his virtual camera museum (see web links). In 2008 the fiduciary (fiduciary) foundation of the Kurt Tauber Camera Museum was founded, which owns Kurt Tauber's exhibits and all future additions. Foundation purposes include a .:
- Taking over, maintaining and maintaining the photo and camera collection and the archive from Kurt Tauber
- the establishment and operation of a photo history museum
On April 26, 2011, the Friends of the German Camera Museum in Plech e. V., the mayor of Plech, Karlheinz Escher, was elected as the first chairman, and Kurt Tauber as deputy chairman. The sponsoring association operates the museum, the corresponding premises were made available by the market town of Plech (in the upper building of the primary school of the community, Schulstrasse 8, which was redesigned for the museum).
The "real" museum
The museum is divided into the following departments (schematic representation):
The camera room
From the German Agfa Clack to the Swedish Hasselblad , from the legendary Leica to cheap Pocket advertising camera from one of the first SLR brand Voigtländer the size of two shoe boxes to the famous James Bond spy camera Minox are many known and unknown photo products to marvel at the original in the showcases of this department.
Other outstanding exhibits:
- Schatz & Sons "Sola" - miniature camera (1939), according to James E. Cornwall, only four examples are known in public collections
- Casio Wrist Camera (WQV-1) Module No. 2220 - digital wrist watch with built-in digital camera (2000)
- Pocket Icelandair - Pocket aircraft camera "Icelandair" (1998)
- Voigtlander SLR camera - early SLR camera in the format 12 cm × 16½ cm (1908)
- Early digital cameras and digital camera pioneers - Kodak Nikon DCS 620, Sony Mavica, Canon ION, and more
- Tour of the German Camera Museum: The Camera Hall
Collage with selected SLR cameras from the German Camera Museum
Collage with selected pocket cameras from the German Camera Museum
Collage with selected single-use cameras from the German Camera Museum
High-speed camera Pentacon Pentazet 35 LZ 1 with 40,000 frames per second
Miniature camera Schatz & Sons "Sola"
Casio Wrist Camera (WQV-1) Module No. 2220
Pocket camera "Icelandair"
Voigtlander reflex camera (format: 12 cm × 16 ½ cm)
Repro, laboratory and large equipment
In the repro technology , laboratory and large equipment department, Falz & Werner, a 4.40 meter long repro camera made of wood (built in 1928), dominates the seven by ten meter hall, which also presents other large-format and studio cameras , laboratory equipment and various unusual devices .
Among them is an exhibit that is one of the declared absolute favorites of almost all visitors: a Planox Heidoplast stereo image viewer from Franke & Heidecke ( Rollei ), which proves that 3-D photos are not an invention of today, but rather dating back to the 1920s Years of enthusiasm in the middle-class living rooms.
Here are a few other noteworthy exhibits:
- Studio camera Linhof Kardan Color 18 cm × 24 cm
- Metal stereoscope Underwood & Underwood, circa 1900
- Collection of various laboratory items and enlargers
- Tour of the German Camera Museum: repro, laboratory and large equipment
Studio camera Linhof Kardan Color 18 cm × 24 cm
Metal stereoscope, around 1900
Laboratory articles, enlargers, photo chemistry
Shop Photo Fischer Rhauderfehn
A special installation is shown in this department: The German Camera Museum has succeeded in rebuilding a complete photo business (from the 1950s).
Furniture and other interior of the former Photo Fischer photo shop from Rhauderfehn in East Friesland were brought to Plech a few years ago after the death of the last owner and rebuilt with original decorations - including many of the photo items offered at the time, the earlier film order bags, company stamps, plastic shopping bags, of the gift wrapping paper and the original neon signs.
- Tour of the German Camera Museum: Photo Fischer Rhauderfehn shop
Agfa barometer station at the entrance to the old photo shop
This is what the typical diamond shelf with the different types of film and lightning bulbs looks like today in the Plecher Museum - absolutely "faithfully reproduced" and richly stocked
The famous Fuji Zeppelin on the ceiling of the exhibition room
Cinema and projection
Highlights of this department are u. a .:
- 100 Leitz and Leica slide projectors from the Albert Johann Schnelle collection - it includes almost all projectors ever built by Leitz / Leica
- Umaja - one of the first Leitz slide projectors for 35mm format (1926)
- Beaulieu R 16 - high quality film camera for 16 mm professional film (1965)
- Bauer 88 D - German camera technology for normal 8 film (1958)
- EKA projector - 35 mm film projector from EKA Eberlein & Krug, Fürth / Bavaria (1930)
- Tour of the German Camera Museum: cinema and projection
View into the film & projection room: on the left the film projectors, in the back the over 100 Leitz projectors from the Albert Schnelle collection.
Crass animation table (side view)
Leitz slide projector "Umaja"
16 mm film camera "Beaulieu R 16"
8 mm film camera "Bauer 88 D"
35 mm film projector "EKA"
archive
In addition to the exhibits that cannot be shown due to lack of space, the archive includes:
- Equipment collection and archive of the Nuremberg companies Carl Braun (cameras, slide projectors) and Foto Quelle (Revue) with over 75 Foto-Quelle catalogs
- Over 20,000 original operating instructions in the archive, more than 3,500 of which can be researched online, hundreds of specialist books and magazines
- approx. 6,000 photo and film cameras, projectors, lenses - including 1,500 different pocket cameras from all over the world
- more than 2,000 stereo recordings on glass plates
(Small) statistics
Currently (May 2018) the holdings of the German Camera Museum include the following exhibits:
| Collection area / topic | Inventory (approx.) | including in the exhibition | Comments / special features |
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| Photo cameras | 6,000 (including over 2,000 pocket cameras
and several hundred single-use cameras) |
over 1,300 | Stereo, panorama, large-format, aerial, kit cameras, etc. |
| Film cameras | 1000 | over 150 | from normal 8 cameras to 35 mm cinema cameras - special feature: Crass animation table with 16 and 35 mm cameras |
| Interchangeable lenses, flash units, accessories | 1,000 | over 500 | - |
| Slide projectors | 500 | over 200 | Including over 100 Leitz and Leica projectors from all eras; six Hasselblad cross-fade projectors with fully set stereo slide presentations in slide format 6 × 6 cm |
| Movie projectors | 300 | over 100 | for films from 9.5 mm to 35 mm, visitors can watch their films in the museum with the museum equipment |
| Photographs, slides | many thousands | over 100 | |
| Stereo images, slides | 6,000 | 120 | |
| Specialist books, brochures, magazines | 5,000 | Library | |
| Catalogs (mail order companies, including Foto-Quelle, Neckermann) | 120 | digitized over 50 - searchable on the internet | |
| Manuals | 20,000 | digitized over 3,500 - searchable on the internet |
Honors
- Promotion Prize of the Culture Prize 2014 of the Bayreuth district (awarded on August 1, 2014 during the district reception in the Bayreuth district office)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sponsorship award of the Bayreuth district culture award. (No longer available online.) In: landkreis-bayreuth.de. October 3, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved October 3, 2014 . 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.
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 4 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 19 ″ E