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 Websites to check
- 3.20 New documents
- 4 Some tools for Japanese language
Camera interests
Everyday cameras:
Research and collecting interests:
- Japanese cameras up 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: Japanese subminiature
- 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:
Unfinished tag on:
Cleanup tag on:
Unsourced tag on:
- Yashica (is a mess)
Pre-1945 Japanese cameras
Near exhaustive coverage. Missing or incomplete:
- very old cameras:
- imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
- imported Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
- Cherry
- Star Nipper (Ueda)
- Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
- major cameras:
- Pearlette: WIP
- Semi Minolta: minor details
- Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: unfinished
- Pearl (4.5×6), to split into Semi Pearl, Pearl (I), II, III and Pearl IV
- Semi Leotax
- Mamiya Six
- Elmoflex
- 35mm cameras:
- 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:
- Semi Minolta (I) and II
- Pearl (4.5×6), to split into Semi Pearl, Pearl (I), II, III and Pearl IV
- Semi Leotax
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. The Olympus Flex needs major clean-up. Weird names:
All the pages about 4×4 models are created. Some pages are incomplete:
- Olympus Eye Flex: clean-up
- 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. Already done:
- Super Flex Baby
- Tanyflex
- Hasemiflex
- Escaflex and Rolly Flex
- Reflex Beauty
- Zuman Flex
- Komaflex-S
- Minolta SR66
Next on the list:
Vest
All the Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) pages have reached a stable condition, except the Pearlette (work in progress).
Baby and Four
All the pages are have reached a stable condition, except the following:
- 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 condition.
Plate
All the pages have reached a stable condition, except some older models:
- 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 condition, except for the Konilette, 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. Most other postwar models are missing.
No-need-darkroom film
Prewar and wartime models:
Subminiature
All the prewar and wartime models have reached a stable condition. A few postwar models have been addressed too.
Remaining 16mm models:
- Binoca
- Mamiya 16
- Mica Automat
- Konan 16, Minolta 16, Sonocon 16
- Nice
- Olympus SC-16
- Golden Steky and Ricoh 16
- Rubix and Rubina
- Steky
- Teleca / Cyclops
- Yashica Y16 and Yashica 16 EE
Remaining 17.5mm models:
Other:
Lenses
The following interchangeable lenses are done:
Next:
- K.O.L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount: unfinished
- Prominar lenses in Leica screw mount
- Zunow lenses
Shutters
Many Japanese leaf shutters have been treated.
Pending pictures
- Semi Minolta: two-window model; Rokkor lens; accessories
- Meisupi and other Tougodo cameras
- Toyoca 35: one more camera and more details
- Owla Stereo: more cameras
- Gelto: lens no.30747
- Gelto and Arsen: new pictures by Rick Soloway in the pool
- Echt copy stand
- Olympus Chrome Six RII
- Arco 35, early example
Pending documentation
See User:Rebollo fr/New documents
Websites to check
- 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
- [2]
- [3]
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