In the 1950s the Camera-Werk Adolf Gerlach produced viewfinder cameras for type No. 120 rollfilm and for 35mm film. One day the company was renamed to Camera-Werk Nixon. The company was based in the suburb Barmen of the West German city Wuppertal.

Cameras Edit

120 film Edit

6×9 box Edit

• Ideal
• Quelle

6×6 Edit

• Ideal (collapsible)
• Reporter (collapsible)
• Nixette (folder, c.1955)
• Trixette, Trixette I, II and T (folder)

35mm film Edit

• Ideal Color 35, Forette / Primo 35 (1954 / 1959)

Links Edit

• Ideal at Optiksammlung.de [1]
• Ideal at Kurt Tauber's [2]
• Ideal Color 35, name variant Forelle at Optiksammlung.de [3]
• Ideal Reporter at Sylvain Halgand's [4]

• Gerlach box cameras at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
  • Gerlach Ideal
  • Gerlach Ideal
  • Gerlach Ideal
  • Gerlach Ideal Reporter