Arae
Arae Kōgaku (荒江光学, meaning Arae Optical) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo in the mid-1950s.[1] It was owned by Arae Taikichi (荒江泰吉), who made and announced a prototype 35mm SLR camera called Altair in early 1955. The company was certainly founded specifically to manufacture this camera, and left no trace after that date.
Notes
- ↑ Its exact address was Itabashi-ku Shimura Shimizu-chō 303 (東京都板橋区志村清水町303). Source: column in Asahi Camera February 1955, p.182.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera February 1955. "Shinseihin memo" (新製品メモ, New products memo). P.182.
- Mabuchi, Sam. "In search of the missing Altair camera". In The PHSC E-mail, vol.6–10, supplement to Photographic Canadiana, Feb. 2007, pp.4–5. Also published in Camera Shopper no.173, Mar. 2007, pp.11–2. (This article contains a partial reproduction of an article by Hagiya Takeshi [萩谷剛] in an unspecified issue of Kurashikku Kamera Senka.)
