Re: Wirgin/Edixa names for Patrick ( digest 1592)

[P3D George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Bob Howard wrote
> 
> RE: Patrick has Wirgin Stereo but can find no name of Edixa Camera Co.
> on it?
> 
> patented. I think we can assume that the Edixa names were for the SLRs
> and their one stereo bore the WIRGIN name of the company! Perhaps the
> stereo is also the genius of their crack engineer who made the company
> go from shoddy to snazzy. BobH
The firm's stereo cameras were sold under both names. I have two bits
of evidence to that effect.

1. The late Howard Frazee (of the San Francisco Bay area) had retired
from NASA and decided to become a stereo collector. Once he invited 
the whole membership of a camera club to his home to see his collection.
While I was looking at his collection of Realists and lusting after his
Macro Realist, he came up and asked me what sort of stereo camera I 
used. I said Wirgin, and then he showed me an identical camera labeled
as an Edixa. He said he didn't know why they existed under two names, 
but his was otherwise identical to mine.

2. Last year I decided to buy the Edixa instruction sheets from 
Reel 3-D. The pictures show a camera that looks and works just
like mine.

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I must say I was delighted to get a bit of history about Wirgin/Edixa.
I'm pretty sure I've had it since 1974, but I only used it sporadically.
Main problem was that I sometimes loaded the film wrong and would lose
a whole roll. This will never happen again, as long as I don't forget
where I'm storing the instruction sheets.
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