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 Stereo
- 3.16 Lenses
- 3.17 Shutters
- 3.18 Pending pictures
- 3.19 Pending documentation
- 3.20 Websites to check
- 3.21 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:
Pre-1945 Japanese cameras
Near exhaustive coverage. Missing or incomplete:
- major cameras:
- Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: unfinished
- Mamiya Six
- Elmoflex
- 35mm cameras:
- pre-1945 Canon: Kwanon, Hansa Canon, Canon S and Canon J
- Nippon (35mm)
- pre-1945 Leotax
- very old cameras:
- imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
- Star Nipper (Ueda)
- Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
Semi
All the prewar and wartime pages have reached a stable state.
Most postwar pages are up and running, but many of them still need attention:
- Daiichi models:
- Minolta models:
- Kuribayashi models:
- Konishiroku 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:
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. Coming soon:
- Olympus Flex, in need of a major clean-up
- Tsubasaflex, Orionflex, Rectaflex (TLR) and Graceflex, to merge in a single page on Kigawa postwar TLR
All the pages about 4×4 models are created. Some pages are incomplete:
- Olympus Eye 44: clean-up, WIP
- Yashica-44
- Primo Jr: user manuals
All the pages about 35mm models are created. The Yallu Flex page might be completed.
Medium format SLR
Many pages on major recent models are incomplete.
Next on the list:
Vest
All the Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) pages have reached a stable condition.
Baby and Four
All the pages are have reached a stable condition, except the following:
- 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 very old models:
- imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
- Star Nipper (Ueda)
- Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
Some more details might be added on other very old models:
- imported Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
- Cherry
35mm
All the articles about Japanese 35mm folding, 35mm stereo and 35mm TLR cameras have reached a stable condition, except for the Konilette and Yallu Flex.
Very few articles on other 35mm cameras are done. Next on the list:
- Tanack SD
- Tanack V3 and VP
- Nippon (35mm)
- Nicca (bottom loading)
- Nicca (hinged back)
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:
- Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: unfinished
Subminiature
All the prewar and wartime models have reached a stable condition. A number of postwar models have been addressed too.
Remaining 16mm models:
- Binoca
- Mamiya 16
- Mica Automat: WIP
- Konan 16 and Stereo Konan
- 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:
Stereo
All the pages have reached a stable condition. The only missing camera is the Stereo Konan-16, and perhaps a few modern cameras.
Lenses
A few pages on interchangeable lenses are done.
Next:
Shutters
Many Japanese leaf shutters have been treated.
Pending pictures
- Semi Minolta (I) and II: rangefinders
- 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
- Arco 35, early example
Pending documentation
See User:Rebollo fr/New documents
Websites to check
- Find Flickr photo owner and get original size
- Liveauctioneers lists Westlicht from auction no.7 onwards
- 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
- Fora:
- [6]
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