Waltax
The Waltax was a series of 4.5×6 folders, whose body was copied from the Ikonta A. Some of them were made by Okada, and some sources say that other Waltax cameras were made by Daiichi.
The first Waltax models had a folding optical finder.
A wartime ad for the Waltax (visible in this page) showed a 4.5×6 folder copied on the Ikonta A, with a folding optical finder, offered for ¥185, case in supplement for ¥7.70. The only company names that appear in the ad were Nihon Shōkai and Honjō Shōkai. Honjō Shōkai is mentioned as a wholesaler (本庄商会卸部), this company still exists as Honjō K.K. (本庄株式会社), a photo wholesaler (see the company history here).
Here is a list of variants as it appears in McKeown:
- Waltax (I) under Okada
- Waltax I under Daiichi, as all the following models
- Waltax Acme, with a rangefinder
- Waltax Junior, with top housing
- Waltax Senior, with top housing
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