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 from 1955 by Cosmo Camera Seisakusho, certainly the successor of Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku. The latter was certainly the supplier of the TSK shutters of the Alfaflex and Cosmoflex II. Cosmo Camera Seisakusho was perhaps the result of a merge between Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku and Alfa Camera Seisakusho.
Notes
- ↑ The name Alfa Kōki (アルファ光機) given here and here at Japan Family Camera and here 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
