Alps

Japanese no-need-darkroom cameras (edit)

box	Baby Camera \| Camerette \| Chitose \| Congo Camera \| Hit-Go \| It \| Kamerette \| Katei \| Maruso Camera \| Mikasa-Go \| Nymco \| Speed-Go \| Super Camera \| Tougo
folding	Baby Camera \| Best Camera \| Hero-Go \| Highking Camera \| Katei \| Lead-Go \| Maruso Camera \| Meiko \| Midori \| Nice-Go \| Special Camera \| Yuuhi-Go
viewfinder	Meikai \| Meisupi \| Meisupi
SLR	Auto Reflex \| Baby Reflex \| Chitose \| Speed-Go Reflex
TLR	Light-Go \| B Light-Go \| Maruso Camera \| Meikai \| Meisupi
unknown	Alps \| Lion \| Tōkō
Plate cameras: monocular, box, folding bed, strut-folding and SLR ->
3×4 and 4×4, 4×5 and 4×6.5, 4.5×6, 6×6, 6×9 ->

The Alps (アルプス) is a Japanese camera using the no-need-darkroom process, reportedly advertised by the company Ōhashi Shōten from March 1931, at the price of ¥2 for a set.^[1] The camera was probably shaped as a box, but this is currently unsure. No surviving example has been observed so far.

Notes

↑ Date, price and attribution to Ōhashi Shōten: Awano, p.7 of Camera Collectors' News no.317, quoting the book Nihon Shashinshi Nenpyō (日本写真史年表).

Bibliography

Awano Mikio (粟野幹男). "Tougō kamera (4)" (トウゴーカメラ[4], Tougo cameras [4]). In Camera Collectors' News no.317 (November 2003). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.7–12.

[1] Date, price and attribution to Ōhashi Shōten: Awano, p.7 of Camera Collectors' News no.317, quoting the book Nihon Shashinshi Nenpyō (日本写真史年表).

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