Alfa Camera
Alfa Camera Seisakusho (アルファカメラ製作所, Arufa Kamera Seisakusho) was a Japanese company, which made the Alfaflex and Cosmoflex TLR cameras from 1952 to 1954. It used the English name Alfa Optical Co. for some camera markings.[1]
The address was Nerima-ku Minamimachi (練馬区南町) 3–6016 in Tokyo.[2]
The name Cosmo was re-used by Cosmo Camera Seisakusho from 1955.
Notes
- ↑ The name Alfa Kōki (アルファ光機) given in this page at Japan Family Camera and in this page at Aya's Camera is certainly a wrong back translation of "Alfa Optical Co."
- ↑ Advertisements dated March 1953 and February 1954, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 117 and 136, and advertisement dated 1954 reproduced in Shashin-Bako.
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.
Links
In Japanese:
- Advertisement by Alfa Camera dated 1954, reproduced in Shashin-Bako
