Ihagee

Ihagee

Ihagee was a camera manufacurer based in Dresden, Germany. Its best-known product was the Exakta single-lens reflex camera.

History

Johan Steenbergen, a Dutchman, founded a camera company called "Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft" (Industry and Trade Society) in Dresden in 1912. The name was shortened to Ihagee (based on the German pronunciation of the acronym IHG, ee-hah-gay). In 1918 six woodworkers joined Steenbergen at what was known from then on as Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co.

Ihagee's most successful camera by far was the Exakta, which was produced for decades. The series began in 1933 with the Standard Exakta, which used 127 rollfilm. This was followed in 1936 by the popular 35mm Kine Exakta. Ihagee also made a smaller version of the Exakta called the Exa.

The company was greatly affected by World War II. Steenbergen left Dresden in 1942, never to return, and the Ihagee factory was destroyed during the Allied bombing of Dresden in April 1945. The partitioning of Germany after the war left Dresden and Ihagee in the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany. The Soviet Union quickly reestablished Ihagee, producing some Exakta and Exa cameras from the parts and machinery that had survived the bombing. The company was taken over by Pentacon, the maker of the successful Praktica camera, in 1951.

Steenbergen returned to West Germany and created a new company in 1959 which was called Ihagee West and had its headquarters in Frankfurt. In 1966 the company marketed its own camera, the Exakta real, without much success. After Steenbergen's death in 1967, Ihagee West ordered and sold the Exakta TwinTL, which was built by Cosina. The company was dissolved in 1976.

Ihagee in Dresden was very successful in the development and sales of the Exakta SLR. In 1970, however, the company was completely absorbed by Pentacon and camera production under the Ihagee nameplate ceased. The last Exakta model, the RTL 1000, was a cooperative effort with Pentacon. It is possible that the Ihagee company still exists on paper.

Since 1997 the Steenbergen Foundation (Steenbergen Stichting) in The Hague, The Netherlands commemorates Johan Steenbergen by awarding the Steenbergen Stipendium to a graduate of one of the Dutch photo academies, and to a university graduate, supporting a study of a historical aspect of the Dutch province of Drenthe, birthplace of Steenbergen.

Models

Ihagee produced many interesting and historically significant models.

* Plan and Roll Paff Reflex (reflex boxes)
* Tropen Neugold (beautiful tropen version of the Patent Duplex)
* Zweiverschluss Duplex (with both central and focal plane shutter)
* Patent Klapp (Folding) Reflex (folding in a very peculiar way)
* Corona (wooden travel camera in 5 sizes)
* Parvola (with double-helical extension mechanism)
* VP (vest pocket) or Standard Exakta (3 years before the 35mm Exakta)
* Kine Exakta (introduced in 1936)
* Exakta Varex (the first SLR with interchangeable view-finders)

External links

* [http://www.ihagee.org Ihagee & Exakta Products and History]


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