Film camera

The Ukrainian resident in Geneva (Switzerland) Jacques Bogopolsky, better known as Boolsky, founded the Bolex company in 1927 for the commercialization of small-format film cameras, the Bolex Auto-Cine A, B and C, of 16 mm. The manufacture of these cameras was commissioned to the Swiss company Longines. However, in 1930, this company announced that it did not intend to produce any more cameras. Then, on 1 October 1930, the Paillard company, engaged in the manufacture of typewriters, acquired Bolex and resumed production. However, Paillard executives soon discovered that the cameras and lenses of this camera were not the exceptional products that their partners had told them. Disappointed, they decided to develop a new one. They spent three years completing what was called the H-16, which would become a symbol of Swiss technological excellence. The H series of Paillard-Bolex cameras (16 mm, 9.5 mm and 8 mm formats) was the best known and most prestigious. Different versions were marketed, but it was the H-16 REX (reflex), released in 1956, the most famous and widely used, both in the world of television, as well as in documentary, animation and amateur cinema. This camera belonged to the Catalan amateur filmmaker Jan Baca. View this camera in 3D by clicking the link