Adler Six
See also the Adler 4.5×6 models, the Adler Four (4×4 model) and the Vest Adler, a possible name variant of the 4×6.5 Vest Olympic.
The Adler Six[1] (アドラーシックス) is a 6×6 folding camera, sold by Riken Kōgaku Kōgyō (now Ricoh) in 1941 and 1942. Like the other Adler cameras, it was not made by Riken.[2]
Description
The Adler Six is a horizontal folding camera, copy of the Ikonta 6×6. There is a folding optical finder in the middle of the top plate and an advance key at the left end. The body release is on the right and the folding bed release is next to the viewfinder on the left. There are strap lugs at both ends of the body. The back is hinged to the right.
The shutter is a Roico I giving T, B, 5–200 speeds. The rim is engraved ROICO I at the bottom and the speed settings are inscribed T, B, 200, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5 in that order.
Advertisements and other documents
It is advertised in 1942[3] with a T, B, 5–200 shutter[4], in two variants:
- Adler Six I with a Ricoh Anastigmat 75/4.5 lens (¥93);
- Adler Six II with a Ricoh Anastigmat 75/3.5 lens, maybe with four elements[5] (¥111).
Notes
- ↑ The name "Adler" was clearly used to demonstrate Japan's alliance with Germany. During the war period, Riken often used such names (they also sold a Heil camera), or other "patriotic" names.
- ↑ According to this page of the Ricoh official website.
- ↑ Template:Gochamaze — An advertisement originally published in the October 1942 issue of Shashin Bunka, reproduced in Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi, item 8, only shows the Adler Six II.
- ↑ This page of the Ricoh official website says that the shutter is a Roico II with B, 10–200 speeds.
- ↑ According to this page of the Ricoh official website.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7. Item 8.
- Tanaka Masao (田中政雄). "Senzen no kamera 2: Supuringu kamera" (戦前のカメラ2・スプリングカメラ, Prewar cameras 2: folding cameras). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.14, October 1989. No ISBN number. Rikō kamera no subete (リコーカメラのすべて, special issue on Ricoh). Pp. 16–9.
The Adler Six is not listed in Sugiyama.
Links
In Japanese:
- Pages of the Ricoh official website:
- Advertisements reproduced in the Japanese camera page and the camera company page of the Gochamaze website:
- Advertisement for the Adler Six I and II published in the 15 July 1942 issue of Asahi Graph
- Advertisement for the Riken cameras and lenses picturing an Adler Six, published in the 19 August 1943 issue of Asahi Graph
| Asahi Bussan and Riken prewar and wartime cameras () | ||
|---|---|---|
| rigid or collapsible | ||
| Vest Adler | Gokoku | Semi Kinsi | Letix | Olympic | New Olympic | Regal Olympic | Semi Olympic | Super Olympic | Vest Olympic | Riken No.1 | Ricohl | Roico | Seica | Zessan | ||
| folders | pseudo TLR | TLR |
| Semi Adler | Adler III | Adler A | Adler B | Adler C | Adler Four | Adler Six | Gaica | Heil | Kinsi | Chukon Ref | Ricohflex | Ricohflex B |
