Aram
Aram Kōgaku Kenkyūjo (アラム光学研究所) was a Japanese company. It was founded in 1953 by Nakagawa Kenzō (中川幹三), who had created the Leotax rangefinder camera and founded Shōwa Kōgaku in 1938.[1]
In the summer of 1954, the company announced the Aram Automat, a 6×6 folder with many advanced features. It was produced in a simpler form as the Aram Six, but only about 100 examples were made.
Aram Kōgaku also worked as a subcontractor of Konishiroku, supplying the auto-stop advance mechanism of the Pearl III at a pace of about 2,000 per month.[2] The company disappeared after the failure of the Aram Six.
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Bibliography
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5.
