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| − | '''Ofuna Optical Instrument Manufacturing Co Ltd''' (大船光学機械製作所, ''Ōfuna Kōgaku-Kikai Seisakusho'') marketed a total of four cameras after the war. | + | '''Ofuna Optical Instrument Manufacturing Co Ltd''' (大船光学機械製作所, ''Ōfuna Kōgaku-Kikai Seisakusho'') marketed a total of four cameras after the second world war. |
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| + | The company originated during the war, when it started as a factory in Kamakura — just to the north of which is the town of Ōfuna — of Tomioka (which much later would join Yashica). The factory produced binoculars and other military optics. Tomioka's main factory (in Yukigaya-Ōtsuka, Tokyo) was destroyed by bombing toward the end of the war, and when the war finished Tomioka moved to a western outer suburb of Tokyo. Its Kamakura factory, which had escaped unscathed, raised capital independently and became an independent company. | ||
*Herlight | *Herlight | ||
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*Ofuna Six (non-coupled rangefinder) | *Ofuna Six (non-coupled rangefinder) | ||
*Ofuna Six (coupled rangefinder) | *Ofuna Six (coupled rangefinder) | ||
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==Source / further reading== | ==Source / further reading== | ||
Revision as of 04:13, 17 May 2006
Ofuna Optical Instrument Manufacturing Co Ltd (大船光学機械製作所, Ōfuna Kōgaku-Kikai Seisakusho) marketed a total of four cameras after the second world war.
The company originated during the war, when it started as a factory in Kamakura — just to the north of which is the town of Ōfuna — of Tomioka (which much later would join Yashica). The factory produced binoculars and other military optics. Tomioka's main factory (in Yukigaya-Ōtsuka, Tokyo) was destroyed by bombing toward the end of the war, and when the war finished Tomioka moved to a western outer suburb of Tokyo. Its Kamakura factory, which had escaped unscathed, raised capital independently and became an independent company.
- Herlight
- Ofunaflex
- Ofuna Six (non-coupled rangefinder)
- Ofuna Six (coupled rangefinder)
[More coming soon]
Source / further reading
- Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Ōfuna Kōgaku no kamera: Kamera kara kōgaku heiki e" (大船光学のカメラ：カメラから光学兵器へ, The cameras of Ōfuna Kōgaku: From cameras to military optics). Chapter 8 of Zunō kamera tanjō: Sengo kokusan kamera jū monogatari (ズノーカメラ誕生：戦後国産カメラ10物語, The birth of the Zunow camera: Ten stories of postwar Japanese camera makers). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1999. ISBN 4-257-12023-1 In Japanese only. First published in issue 39 (September 1996) of Kamera rebyū: Kurashikku kamera senka (カメラレビュー・クラシックカメラ専科).
