[LargeFormat] WWII signal Corp newsgroups

[Eve Girard]

As much as I hate to dispute Mr Knoppow over ANYTHING, I do have to lodge a
quibble over the Simmons Combat Camera.  Peter Lanczac is always on the
money with his research!  The Combat camera was a focal-plane shuttered
beast with no resemblance to the later Omega or Koni Omega cameras that
followed.   According to Peter, the Combat camera saw service in the closing
months of WWII.  It seems that this is very much "pre" any "Omega"
designators.
Eve


>

>
>
> > Hi all
> > I have a Koni Omega medium format camera here. I heard it
> was used and
> > actually designed for either WW2 or the Korean war or
> both. I found this
> > link just now in the search engines.
> > http://www.peterlanczak.de/koni_overview.htm
> > Bye
> > Bob
> >
>   The Omega camera was originally made by Simmon Brothers
> who make Omega enlargers. They came out in the mid to late
> 1950's. Possibly early enough to have been used in Korea but
> not during WW-2. I don't know when the design was aquired by
> Koni. The camera came out about the time that press
> photographers were switching from 4x5 Speed Graphics to
> smaller formats but it was never very popular.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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