Neumann & Heilemann
Neumann & Heilemann was a company founded in the 1930s by Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, two German people living in Japan. Billy Neumann had previously worked for Krauss in Paris, and Willy Heilemann for Kenngott, then they had helped Kazuo Tashima to found the Nichi-Doku company (that would later become Minolta), before founding their own company. Its logo was NH inside a circle. It made the Rulex and Perfect (or Perfekt) shutters as well as cameras and lenses. Neumann & Heilemann made the first Japanese TLR in 1937, called the Prince Flex and distributed by Fukada Shōkai. (It is often attributed to Fujimoto, certainly because there is a confusion around the Prince name.)
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Cameras
McKeown says that Neumann & Heilemann made a 4.5×6 folder called Condor. This is probably a confusion with the Condor folders, most of them having a Neumann & Heilemann Rulex shutter.
6×6 TLR
Shutters
- Rulex (various versions)
- Perfect (sometimes written Perfect) (at least T, B, 1–300)
Cameras equipped with a Neumann & Heilemann shutter
This list is incomplete, and that a model appears in the list does not mean that all its variants are concerned.
- Adler (by Riken)
- Semi Condor, New Semi Condor and Condor Six
- Semi Prince
- Semi Proud (by Proud)
- Semi Olympus (by Takachiho)
Lenses
- Radionar 75/4.5, probably under license from Schneider, equipped some Semi Prince
- Tritar 105/4.5, camera unknown, shown here
Cameras equipped with a Neumann & Heilemann lens
This list is incomplete, and that a model appears in the list does not mean that all its variants are concerned.
Bibliography
- Baird, John R. The Japanese Camera. Yakima, WA: Historical Camera Publications, 1990. ISBN 1-879561-02-6.