Kamera-Werkstätten

By the beginning of the twentieth century the photographic industry prospered using new manufacturing methods, building smaller, lighter and more reliable equipment, and using better materials like aluminium and steel rather than wood, brass and leather.

[1] After World War I, the camera industry in Dresden surely had the most specialized workforce in that field, comprising several respected brands.

[5] Even before this, dark skies over Europe had made Benno Thorsch, the surviving partner from 1919, determined to immigrate to the United States, and consequently placed an advertisement to that effect.

Charles A. Noble, who ran a successful photo-finishing company in Detroit, Michigan, answered while visiting Dresden, and they agreed to exchange their interests in their respective enterprises.

: John H. Noble) becoming part of the VEB Pentacon organisation, which evidently absorbed every photographic enterprise in East Germany.