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| Industry | Digital imaging |
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| Founded | Wettswil, Switzerland (1939) |
| Headquarters | Wettswil, Switzerland |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | ceiling rail system, tripod head, turntable, studio table |
| Website | http://www.foba.ch/ |
FOBA AG is a Swiss company that makes photographic studio equipment.
In 1939, just after World War II started in Europe, imports of photography products such as lights and dry presses from Germany were reduced to a trickle. Walter Friedrich, a precisions engineer, together with his wife, began to manufacture commodities for professional photographers in their rented home's small basement. He called his startup Fotogeräte- und Elektroapparate-Bau ("Manufacturing of photographic and electrical equipment"), or FOBA. To save on shipping costs and to keep up the personal contact with his customers, Friedrich at first delivered products personally by bicycle.
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