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The '''Angel Six''' is a Japanese 6&times;6 folding camera. It was briefly announced in a column of the November 1953 issue of ''[[Ars Camera]]'' and was made or sold by [[Tōkai Shashin-yōhin]] (東海写真用品{{kabu}}).<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;348. Lewis, p.&nbsp;83, says "Takai Photo Products", probably by mistake. </REF> It is said to take both 6&times;6cm and 4.5&times;6cm exposures, to have manual film advance via red windows, a front-cell focusing Angel 75/3.5 lens and a synchronized [[NKS]] shutter (B, 1&ndash;200, self-timer).<REF> All features: {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;348. </REF> No picture of the camera has been observed so far, and no surviving example is known yet.
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* {{Showa10}} Item 426.
 
* {{Showa10}} Item 426.

Revision as of 17:00, 13 September 2007

Japanese Six (6×6)
Postwar models (edit)
folding
Aires Viceroy | Angel Six | Aram Six | Astoria Super Six | Atom Six | Balm Six | Baron | Beauty Six (1950) | Beauty Six (1953) | Calm Six | Carl Six | Centre Six | Crown | Crystar Six | Daido Six | Dorima Six | Doris Six | Ehira Six | Elbow Six | First Six | Flora Six | Fodor Six | Frank Six | Fujica Six | Super Fujica Six | Futami Six | Gotex | Grace Six | Kohken Chrome Six | Kyowa Six | Liner Six | Lyra Six | Mamiya Six | Middl Six | Mihama Six | Mine Six | Minon Six | Mizuho Six | Motoka Six | Mount Six | Muse Six | Super Naiku | Ofuna Six | Olympus Six | Olympus Chrome Six | Orion Six | Oscar Six | Pigeon Six | Planet | Please Six | Pluto Six | Poppy Six | Press Van | Press Van-120 | Proud Chrome Six | Proud Super Six | Renown Six | Ricoh Six | Ruvikon | Ruvinal | Sanon Six | Silver Six | Sisley 1 | Sisley 2 & 3 | Sister Six | Tenar Six | Toho Six | Tomic | Toyoca Six | Ugein Six | Wagen Six | Walcon 6 | Welmy Six | Wester | Windsor Six
rigid or collapsible
Dia Six | Ehira Chrome Six | Enon Six | Flora | Flashline | Fujipet | Harmony | Mikono-6 | Orion | Ponix | Rich-Ray-6 | Shumy | Weha Chrome Six
Japanese 6×6 TLR, pseudo TLR and medium format SLR ->
Japanese Semi (4.5×6) and older 6×9 ->

The Angel Six is a Japanese 6×6 folding camera. It was briefly announced in a column of the November 1953 issue of Ars Camera and was made or sold by Tōkai Shashin-yōhin (東海写真用品㈱).[1] It is said to take both 6×6cm and 4.5×6cm exposures, to have manual film advance via red windows, a front-cell focusing Angel 75/3.5 lens and a synchronized NKS shutter (B, 1–200, self-timer).[2] No picture of the camera has been observed so far, and no surviving example is known yet.

Notes

  1. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 348. Lewis, p. 83, says "Takai Photo Products", probably by mistake.
  2. All features: Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 348.

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