The Optical Story

An overview of Optical, a small manufacturer of projection lenses from Spain, as well as images taken with some of their lenses, adapted onto digital cameras.

F. Faliez (Paris)

Relegated to an obscurity unilluminated by the usual sources, the French manufacturer F. Faliez was active from approximately 1912 until at least the late 1940s, with factories and offices based in the village of Aufreville-Brasseuil in Mantes, fifty kilometres west of Paris in the Seine-et-Oise district – it’s distinctive ‘Ft PARIS’ branding a somewhat elastic …