Anny 44

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The Anny 44 (アニー44) is an inexpensive Japanese camera taking 4×4cm pictures on 127 film, made in 1960.[1]

The Anny 44 has a body that roughly imitates a 35mm rangefinder camera, with some design features of the Nikon rangefinders. The designer even added a part imitating the Nikon focusing wheel, actually a shutter lock. Of course, the rangefinder window is a fake too. The advance knob is at the top right and the film advance is controlled via a red window in the back, protected by a horizontally sliding cover.

The lens is fixed-focus and is mounted on a cheap looking barrel. It is usually marked HOEI INDUSTRIAL CO. and HOEI LENS 1:8 F=5cm. It seems that the camera also exists with Kaligar lens markings.[2] There are Bulb and Instant shutter settings and aperture settings from 8 to 22.

Notes

  1. Date: Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 377.
  2. See Sugiyama item 4111.

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