Adler Six
See also the Adler 4.5×6 models, the Adler Four (4×4 model) and the Vest Adler, a possible name variant of the 4×6.5 Vest Olympic.
The Adler Six[1] (アドラーシックス) is a 6×6 folding camera, sold by Riken Kōgaku Kōgyō (now Ricoh) in the first half of the 1940s. Like the other Adler cameras, it was not made by Riken.[2]
Description
The Adler Six is a horizontal folding camera, copy of the Ikonta 6×6. There is a folding optical finder in the middle of the top plate and an advance key at the left end. The body release is on the right and the folding bed release is next to the viewfinder on the left. There are strap lugs at both ends of the body. The back is hinged to the right.
The shutter is a Roico I with setting lever, giving T, B, 5–200 speeds.[3] The rim is engraved ROICO I at the bottom and the speed settings are inscribed T, B, 200, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5 in that order.
The camera exists in two versions: the Adler Six I has a Ricoh Anastigmat 75/4.5 lens and the Adler Six II has a three-element Ricoh Anastigmat 75/3.5 lens.[4]
Advertisements and other documents
The Template:Kakaku1940 short, compiled on October 25, 1940 and published in January 1941, listed the "Adler Six" for ¥79 and the "Adler Six II" for ¥94.[5]
In an advertisement dated July 1942, the Adler Six I was offered for ¥93 and the Adler Six II for ¥111.[6] The latter model was advertised alone in the October 1942 issue of Shashin Bunka.[7]
The "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943, still mentioned the Adler Six with the Ricoh 75/3.5 lens.[8]
Notes
- ↑ The name "Adler" was clearly used to demonstrate Japan's alliance with Germany. During the war period, Riken often used such names (they also sold a Heil camera), or other "patriotic" names.
- ↑ According to this page of the Ricoh official website.
- ↑ This page of the Ricoh official website says that the shutter is a Roico II with B, 10–200 speeds, but this is probably a mistake.
- ↑ Three elements: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item Lb14. Tanaka, p. 19 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no. 14, and this page of the Ricoh website say four elements but this is probably a mistake.
- ↑ Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 4, sections 3 and 4.
- ↑ Advertisement published in Asahi Graph (15 July 1942), reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 58.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 93.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7. Item 8.
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7. Item 93.
- Template:Kakaku1940
- Tanaka Masao (田中政雄). "Senzen no kamera 2: Supuringu kamera" (戦前のカメラ2・スプリングカメラ, Prewar cameras 2: folding cameras). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.14, October 1989. No ISBN number. Rikō kamera no subete (リコーカメラのすべて, special issue on Ricoh). Pp. 16–9.
The Adler Six is not listed in Sugiyama.
Links
In Japanese:
- Pages of the Ricoh official website:
- Advertisements reproduced in the Japanese camera page and the camera company page of the Gochamaze website:
- Advertisement for the Adler Six I and II published in the 15 July 1942 issue of Asahi Graph
- Advertisement for the Riken cameras and lenses picturing an Adler Six, published in the 19 August 1942 issue of Asahi Graph
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