Adler Six

Template:120 folder Japan Around 1942, Riken sold a 6x6 folding camera, called the Adler Six, essentially a copy of the Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6x6. It had a horizontal folding bed, a folding optical finder and a body release. Like the other Adler cameras, it was not made by Riken. The shutter was T-B-5-200 according to a 1942 ad (shown here, from 15/7/1942 issue of Asahi Graph), Ricoh's corporate site says Roico II B-10-200 shutter. This ad showed two variants:

• the Adler Six I with a Ricoh Anastigmat 75/4.5 lens (93 yen)
• the Adler Six II with a Ricoh Anastigmat 75/3.5 lens (111 yen) (Ricoh's corporate site only gives this one and says the lens was four element)

Links

Ricoh's corporate site:

• Ricoh camera list, with the Adler Six II at this page
• Riken wartime camera names: featured article

Other:

• Old Japanese ads, including the Adler Six