studio equipment . foba ag industry digital imaging founded wettswil switzerland 1939 headquarters wettswil switzerland area served worldwide products ceiling rail system tripod head turntable studio table website http www.foba.ch movable light holder on a pipe history edit the story of foba begins in a time when things were not rosy . 1939 just after world war ii started in europe imports of photography products such as lights or dry presses from germany was reduced to a trickle . walter friedrich a precisions engineer saw his chance in these troubled times . whoever could provide these rare pieces of equipment now would likely have it made for the next couple of years . together with his wife in their rented home s small basement he began to manufacture commodities for professional photographers delivering the goods to save on shipping costs but also to keep up the personal contact to his customers himself by bicycle . he called his startup foba fotoger te und elektroapparate bau manufacturing of photographic and electrical equipment and also supplied a first in switzerland at that time cooking plates with integrated heating coils . v t e photography outline terminology 35 mm equivalent focal length angle of view aperture black and white chromatic aberration circle of confusion color balance color temperature depth of field depth of focus exposure exposure compensation exposure value f number film format film speed focal length guide number hyperfocal distance metering mode perspective distortion photograph photographic printing photographic processes reciprocity red eye effect science of photography shutter speed sync zone system genres aerial architectural conceptual conservation cloudscape documentary erotic fashion fine art fire forensic glamour high speed landscape lomography nature nude photojournalism pornography portrait post mortem selfie social documentary sports still life stock street vernacular underwater wedding wildlife techniques afocal bokeh brenizer contre jour cyanotype ettr fill flash fireworks harris shutter hdri high speed holography infrared kirlian kite aerial long exposure macro mordan age multiple exposure night panning panoramic photogram print toning redscale rephotography rollout scanography sabatier effect stereoscopy stopping down strip slit scan sun printing tilt shift time lapse ultraviolet vignetting xerography composition diagonal method framing headroom lead room rule of thirds simplicity equipment camera light field field pinhole press rangefinder slr still tlr toy view darkroom enlarger safelight film base format holder stock filter flash beauty dish cucoloris gobo hood hot shoe monolight reflector snoot softbox lens wide angle lens zoom lens telephoto lens manufacturers monopod movie projector slide projector tripod head zone plate history timeline of photography technology analog photography autochrome lumi re box camera calotype camera obscura daguerreotype dufaycolor heliography painted photography backdrops photography and the law glass plate visual arts digital photography digital camera d slr comparison milc camera back digiscoping digital versus film photography film scanner image sensor cmos aps ccd three ccd camera foveon x3 sensor photo sharing pixel color photography color print film reversal film color management color space primary color cmyk color model rgb color model photographic processing bleach bypass c 41 process cross processing developer digital image processing dye coupler e 6 process fixer gelatin silver process gum printing k 14 process print permanence push processing stop bath lists most expensive photographs photographers norwegian polish street women category portal this photography related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this swiss corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title foba & oldid 651700582 categories manufacturing companies of switzerlandphotography equipmentphotography companiescompanies established in 19391939 establishments in switzerlandswiss brandsphotography stubsswiss company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 march 2015 at 22 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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