User:Rebollo fr
Sub-pages: Flickr hosted material and New documents
Contents
- 1 Camera interests
- 2 Work areas
- 3 User todo list
- 3.1 WIP
- 3.2 Pre-1945 Japanese cameras
- 3.3 Semi
- 3.4 Six
- 3.5 TLR
- 3.6 Medium format SLR
- 3.7 Vest
- 3.8 Baby and Four
- 3.9 6×9
- 3.10 Plate
- 3.11 35mm
- 3.12 Bolta film
- 3.13 No-need-darkroom film
- 3.14 Subminiature
- 3.15 Lenses
- 3.16 Shutters
- 3.17 Pending pictures
- 3.18 Pending documentation
- 3.19 New pictures
- 3.20 New documents
- 4 Some tools for Japanese language
Camera interests
Everyday cameras:
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1
- Olympus OM-1, OM-4 Ti and Pen F
- Leicaflex SL
- Werra IV
Research and collecting interests:
- Japanese cameras from the 1930s to the 1950s
- British press cameras
Work areas
Japanese cameras
- Template: Japanese Baby and Four
- Template: Japanese Vest
- Template: Japanese Semi
- Template: Japanese Six
- Template: Japanese older 6×9
- Template: Japanese plate
- Template: Japanese TLR
- Template: Japanese pseudo TLR
- Template: Japanese medium format SLR
- Template: Japanese post 1960 medium format VF and RF
- Template: Riken prewar and wartime
- Template: Minolta prewar and wartime
- Template: Konishiroku prewar and wartime
- Template: Olympus classic
- Template: Okada timeline
- Template: Daiichi timeline
- Template: Fuji Kōgaku
- Template: Kigawa timeline
- Template: Umemoto
Other
Hosted on Flickr
User todo list
WIP
WIP tag on:
Cleanup tag on:
Unsourced tag on:
- Yashica (is a mess)
Pre-1945 Japanese cameras
Near exhaustive coverage. Missing:
- imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
- imported Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
- Cherry
- Star Nipper (Ueda)
- Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
- Pearl (4.5×6)
- Baby Pearl: WIP
- Pearlette
- Semi Leotax
- Mamiya Six
- Elmoflex
- Semi Minolta: minor details
- Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: WIP
- pre-1945 Canon
- Nippon (35mm)
- pre-1945 Leotax
Semi
All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running. The following need attention:
- big families:
Most postwar pages are up and running, but many of them still need attention:
- Daiichi models:
- Minolta models:
- Kuribayashi models:
- other pages:
- Middl 120
- Tsubasa Semi, the Rosen is a separate model related to JID
- Shinkoh Rabbit
- Tomy
- Semi Hobix
- Doris (4.5×6)
- Japanese 4.5×6 folders
Six
All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running. Some still need attention:
- Mamiya Six
- the Green [1] is a name variant of the Gotex and Poppy Six, and has the same KKS logo as the Mulix
A number of postwar pages are missing. The following are sketchy or near void:
- Doris Six
- First Six (postwar)
- Super Fujica Six
- Fujipet
- Futami Six
- Mamiya Six
- Mizuho Six
- Mount Six
- Press Van
- Welmy Six
- Wester 6×6 folders
The following are already good, but need minor additions:
- Carl Six
- Daido Six
- Ehira Six and Astoria Super Six
- Fujica Six
- Middl 120
- Mihama Six
- Mine Six
- Rich-Ray-6
- Sisley 1 and Balm Six
- Walcon 6
TLR
All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running, except that on the Elmoflex.
The postwar pages are largely incomplete. Weird names:
All the pages about 4×4 models are created. Some pages are incomplete:
- Olympus Eye Flex
- Yashica-44
- Primo Jr: user manuals
All the pages about 35mm models are created. The Yallu Flex page might be completed.
Medium format SLR
Most pages need work. Next on the list:
Vest
All the Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) pages are up and running. Only the Pearlette still needs attention.
Baby and Four
All the pages are up and running. The following need attention:
- Baby Pearl: WIP
- Yashica Future 127
- the rangefinder Molby in Sugiyama might be an aftermarket conversion (?)
- other two-window rangefinder conversions than the Cyclon are known to exist
- the postwar Gelto exists in silver and golden finish; unclear s/n details
6×9
All the pages have reached a stable state.
Plate
Next on the list:
- Cherry
- Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
- Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
- Star Nipper (Ueda)
- Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
35mm
All the articles about Japanese 35mm folding, 35mm stereo and 35mm TLR cameras have reached a stable state, except for the Yallu Flex and Riken 35mm stereo prototype.
Bolta film
All the prewar and wartime models are done, and the whole Boltax, Silver, Dan and Minon series is done too.
No-need-darkroom film
Prewar and wartime models:
Subminiature
All the prewar and wartime models are done. A few postwar models have been addressed too. Remaining 16mm models:
- Binoca
- Mamiya 16
- Konan 16 and Minolta 16
- Olympus SC-16
- Ricoh 16
- Steky
- Rubix / Rubina
- Teleca / Cyclops
- Yashica 16
Lenses
The following interchangeable lenses are done:
Next:
- K.O.L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount
- identify the Prominar lenses in Leica screw mount
- Zunow lenses
Shutters
Pending pictures
- Semi Minolta: two-window model; Rokkor lens; accessories
- Meisupi and other Tougodo cameras
- Owla Stereo: more cameras
- Gelto: lens no.30747
Pending documentation
For stable articles:
For other articles:
- Semi Mihama and Mihama Six
- Semi Leotax
- Leotax and Semi Leotax
- Pearl II
- Zenobia and Zenobiaflex
- Doris (4.5×6)
For non-existing articles:
Postwar Minolta:
- Minolta plants
- Minolta range, c.1957, three types
- Minolta credit, 1950s
- Minolta range, early 1950s
- Minolta 35 E (English)
- Minolta 35 F (English)
- Rokkor lenses for Leica (English)
- Minoltaflex II
- Minoltaflex II (English)
- Minoltaflex II (English user manual)
- Minoltaflex IIB (English)
- Minoltaflex III (user manual)
- Minolta Semi P (English user manual)
- Minolta Miniflex
New pictures
- Find Flickr photo owner and get original size
- Neco's camera collection: many pics, extremely active history
- Novacon on Japanese SLR, pics taken from the Flickr account
- Post on the Zenobiaflex
- www.photo-technique.com
New documents
See User:Rebollo_fr/New documents
Some tools for Japanese language
Useful characters: ā ē ī ō Ō ū Ⅰ型 Ⅱ型 Ⅲ型.
Links to older style kanji characters:
- The Unihan database, to find any Unicode kanji
- Table of shin- and kyū-kanji
- A list of kanji, with some very unusual ones (JIS-2), and another one with small graphic variants
- A guide to 旧漢字
- A page with thousands of readings for addresses in Tokyo
- To find the reading of a name
- Hito no namae, for first names
- To find a modern address
Japanese words, mostly in older script:
- 焦點=焦点: focus
- 鏡玉: lens
- 速寫ケース: eveready case (速写: snapshot)
- 捲上=巻き上げ: winding
- 廣角=広角: wide angle
- 筒型透視ファインダー: tubular optical finder
- 國産=国産: home-made, Japan made
- 壱, 弐, 参, 肆, 伍, 陸, 漆, 捌, 玖, 拾, 佰, 阡, 拾 : numbers from 1 to 10, used to prevent alteration
- 壹, 貳, 參: old form of 1, 2, 3
- 米: metre (see here)
- 糎 or 珊: centimetre
- 粍: millimetre
- 寸: sun, 30.3mm
- 分: bu, 3.03mm
- 瓦: gram
- 匁: monme, 3.75g
Patents