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
Cameras
The H-16 and H-8 lineages, the B, C, D and L series, and the Super 8 era — every model the original site documented.
Projectors
From the multi-gauge Model G of 1936 to the S-series sound projectors.
Lenses
Kern-Paillard, Hugo Meyer, Goerz, Wollensak, SOM Berthiot and Angénieux optics for Bolex cameras.
Accessories
Motors, matte boxes, grips, viewfinders, filters, cases and editing gear, decade by decade.
Serial Lookup
Date a Paillard-Bolex camera from its serial number, using the ranges the original site preserved.
Articles & Ephemera
Recovered writing, the Bolex Reporter magazine, catalogs and vintage advertising.
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 →