Adox

Adox was a German company, also called Dr C. Schleussner Fotowerke GmbH, whose main activity was photo chemistry, film and B&W paper sold under the Adox brand name. They produced some camera models from the 1930s to the early 1960s, the most advanced being the Adox 300 with interchangeable film magazines. In 1938 Adox took over the camera factory of Wirgin when the Wirgin brothers had to leave Germany to escape from persecution by the German regime of that time. After WWII Henry Wirgin bought it back. The Schleussner company was taken over by Dupont, and in 1972 some of the film making machines were sold to the Yugoslavian company Fotokemika along with the rights to continue manufacture of Adox films under license using the original formulae. When the license agreement expired in the early 90's so did the rights to use the Adox brand name and the films were sold under the efke brand name. More recently the German distributor Fotoimpex in Berlin registered the lapsed Adox brand name and now uses it for a variety of products from a different manufacturers, including films and papersefke.

35mm film

• Adrette, name variant of the Wirgin Edinex
• Adox 300
• Adox 500, prototypes
• Golf I (1964)
• Golf IA
• Golf IIA
• Golf IIIA
• Polo 1S
• Polomat
• Polomatic

120 film

6x6 folding

• Golf I
• Golf II
• Golf IV
• Mess-Golf I
• Mess-Golf II
• Mess-Golf IV
• Golf 63
• Golf 63 S
• Golf 45 S

6x9 folding

• Adox Sport (6x9 + 6x4.5)
• Adox Start

6x6 box

• Adox 66
• Adox Blitz

127 film

• Adoxette 3x4, name variant of the Wirgin Gewirette

Special film

• Juka 3x4 on Juka film

Links

In English:

• Some Adox cameras at Alan McPherson's site
• Adox page at ukcamera.com
• Adox camera's in Andrys Stienstra's camera collection
• ADOX on Pocketable History by J. Noir

In French:

• Adox page at Gérard Langlois site
• Adox page at Collection G. Even's site
• Adox cameras at Sylvain Halgand's site
• Adox Cameras Timeline at www.collection-appareils.fr

In German:

• history on adox.de
• Adox company story, in German, from a 1958 book

In Spanish:

• ADOX on Historia de Bolsillo by J. Noir