Südwegen Snow is also a motor company, although our vehicles are very quiet and often unmanned.

We make dollies and drones, some for a camera and its operator and some remotely operated.  We even make programmable camera+vehicle rigs where a the vehicle can follow a moving target on reaching a certain point, the mount could tilt the camera’s axis, camera would refocus the lens, change modes (to high speed/slow-motion, for example) and then switch again when it reaches another position.  It all works together - the driver, the neck of the camera, the eyes of the lens and the brain that processes them all - and camera, mount and vehicle would all follow the playbook.

And because nothing is perfect, the playbook allows for exceptions so that a bump in the road doesn’t result in a wasted shot.  If the subject moves out of the camera’s view, then the camera can make the drone go faster; if the subject is too far, then the camera can make the lens refocus or the drone come closer.

Who We Are.

At Südwegen Snow we are a lot of things, but we are also a photographic film company.

Although we were early proponents of digital photography, we have always believed in analog film.    When we released our first film stocks, we were competing with a giant icon not just of cinema but of American culture and history.

Kodak to us was not just the film that came in gold boxes - it was the gold standard.   That was the standard that we had to reach and that was the competition who we had to beat.

We wanted to be not just better than Kodak, but bigger too, but we never thought it would come to this.

We’ve welcomed many former Kodak employees into the Südwegen family and we like to think that although Kodak has always been our competition, a small part of Kodak is now part of our DNA.

Südwegen Snow is also a mobile OS company.

When we started making phones, RIM/BlackBerry was a giant and we were nobodies.  It is crazy to think that BlackBerry is moving away from having their own phone OS and moving toward Android, while our SnowOS is still surviving.

We aren’t here to gloat - we ourselves don’t like the homogenization of the market.  We have nothing but respect for BlackBerry and we want to learn from them - not only from their mistakes, but from their many, many successes. 

BlackBerry’s operating systems were not custom for novelty’s sake, but for quality and security’s sake - and that is what we strive to do.

Snow and Südwegen logos, Nintendo style.

Some of us grew up on Nintendo, others grew old playing Nintendo.  It’s a company whose games we looked up to and we still look to for inspiration for our games.

The Super Nintendo, with a 16-bit CPU, 15-bit color, 240p resolution, 32 khz sound and 128 kB of RAM (compare that to the specs of any phone) they made games that were more fun than most games today, whether on touch-screens, high-precision & low-latency game controllers, mouse+keyboard or VR.