When travelling I\u2019m always searching to find locally manufactured equipment. Sometimes serious gear, sometimes more in the \u201cfor the lulz\u201d category \u2014 both make me happy.<\/p>\n
An important part of the Spanish camera industry started in Vic, a city in the mountains north of Barcelona, with a man named Pablo Adri\u00e1n Wehrli Wild. Odd name for someone from Spain, right? I can confirm his Swiss origin but no connection to Heinrich Wild whatsoever.<\/p>\n
In 1940 he founded a business to import various European equipment like Polaroids with his business partner Francesc Xavier Bach i Puigrefagut \u2014 originally a pharmacist. This shop would eventually become \u201cCertex SA\u201d in 1952.<\/p>\n
My sample here is a 1968 Werlisa Progress. Think of a 35mm Holga but actually pleasant to shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When travelling I\u2019m always searching to find locally manufactured equipment. Sometimes serious gear, sometimes more in the \u201cfor the lulz\u201d category \u2014 both make me happy. An important part of the Spanish camera industry started in Vic, a city in the mountains north of Barcelona, with a man named Pablo Adri\u00e1n Wehrli Wild. Odd name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[103,107,104,105,106,102],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-history","tag-certex","tag-laotar","tag-spanish-cameras","tag-vic","tag-vintage-cameras","tag-werlisa"],"yoast_head":"\n