Tomioka
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In 1924, the Tomioka Optical Company Ltd. was founded in the outskirts of Tokyo. They supplied lenses to a number of Japanese camera makers like Yashica and Royal Camera Company. A rather well-known example is the Tessar-like Lausar lens. Other types and brand names of this company include Tominon, Tominor, Tri-Lausar, Tomi-Kogaku, Auto-Tominon, Tomi-Yashinon, Yashimar, Yashikor, Yashinon, Heliotar and Lumaxar. Yashinon lenses have a reputation of good quality.
Tomioka gained such a good name that this was the plant where Carl Zeiss licensed optics were made for Japanse cameras, like for Contax.
Sources
- Camera Magazine 1996-2: p24-27. Article in Dutch.
- Article on Tomioka in the TLR-cameras website.
Links
- Tomioka today as part of the Kyocera group.
- Tomioka lenses and Yashica cameras on Yashica guy's site.
- a Tomioka company history.
- The end of the Tomioka plant?.
