Paillard-Bolex · Sainte-Croix, Switzerland · 1935–1970s
The digital museum of the classic Bolex.
A preservation — and continuation — of the original BolexCollector.com: cameras, projectors, lenses, accessories, serial numbers, and the printed ephemera of the Swiss company that put precision filmmaking in amateur hands.
- Models catalogued
- 54
- Original URLs inventoried
- 82
- Assets preserved
- 1146
The collections
Cameras
54 modelsThe H-16 and H-8 lineages, the Auto Cine, the B, C, D and L series, the Zoom Reflex and Automatic lines, and the Super 8 era.
Projectors
17 modelsFrom the multi-gauge Model G of 1936 to the S-series sound projectors.
Lenses
6 makersKern-Paillard, Hugo Meyer, Goerz, Wollensak, SOM Berthiot and Angénieux optics for Bolex cameras.
Accessories
20 pagesMotors, matte boxes, grips, viewfinders, filters, cases and editing gear, decade by decade.
Ephemera
171 piecesPeriod advertising, dealer catalogues, promotional brochures and the Bolex Reporter magazine.
Articles
22 articlesRecovered writing from the original site — tips, histories and the serial-number reference.
Reference & tools
A preservation project, in the open.
The original site has gone offline. Every recoverable page has been retrieved from the Internet Archive and preserved — byte-for-byte — alongside this modern edition. Recovery status is public, and every entry states its provenance.
About the restorationIn appreciation
This archive is dedicated to Michael Tisdale, who built the original BolexCollector.com and shared it freely for nearly twenty years.
Read the dedication →