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Kigawa and Optochrom
We read: It was probably the successor of the Optochrom company. Its full name was Kigawa Kōgaku (木川光学, Kigawa Optical). "Kabushiki Kaisha" aside, that was indeed one of its full names. Previously, it had had a different name also starting "Kigawa".
Unless there's an objection, I'm soon going to merge the stuff from Optochrom into this article, adding stuff on the additional Kigawa name.
Because "Carl" was the final name -- as far as I know, but imaginably "Carl" was renamed into something else -- perhaps this should all be merged into Carl. However, the name Kigawa was used for a long time and for a lot of cameras, so merging it all into Carl seems a bit perverse. -- Hoary 20:26, 4 June 2006 (EDT)
Long interruption between 1946 and 1950
There is a long interruption in the ads mentioned by Kokusan kamera no rekishi between the 1946 ads for the Kiko Semi (item 471) and the ads dated 1950 to 1952 for the Tsubasa Semi, Tubasaflex and Grace Flex. I wonder what happened to the company. I also notice that the 1946 ad reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi does not give the company name, thus it is not completely certain that it was already Kigawa Kōgaku.
