[HUG] Re: "Sir John" Noble Is Dead

At 04:06 PM 11/18/2007, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Is this family that produced the Noblex swinging lens/panorama cameras?
>
When those "gnomes of Heidenheim", the Zeiss Foundation, hived up the former Pentacon concern upon the reunification of the Germanies, a factory and a bunch of parts were restored to the Noble family, a mere shard of the old KW works. From this, "Sir John" created the Noblex camera. He forgot to crank into the equation that he had to replace the parts being used in the cameras, especially the lenses. Once the parts ran out, the costs for replacing them was excessive, and so he went bankrupt. 

He really does not seem to have been a very nice or a very realistic person.
Incidentally, the Guthe family got the photo-processing works in Detroit. Benno Thorsche founded the Studio City Camera Exchange in North Hollywood, California, which the family closed down in early 2006. 

Marc


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