Baby Lyra

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Template:127 Japan The Baby Lyra (ベビーライラ) is a Japanese 3×4 folder that was made by Fuji Kōgaku between 1936 and 1938[1]. It is a vertical folding camera, with a folding frame finder, inspired by the Baby Ikonta. It is simply embossed LYRA in the front leather.

The shutter is a Picco with T, B, 25, 50, 100 speeds, probably everset. The aperture scale is at the bottom of the shutter plate and the Picco name is at the top. There is no body release and the lens is front-cell focusing. The Baby Lyra exists in three versions[2]:

  • Pionar f:6.3 lens (¥25 in 1937, ¥28 in 1938);
  • Terionar f:4.5 lens (¥32 then ¥36);
  • Terionar f:3.5 lens (¥42 then ¥46).

The focal length is certainly 50mm, at least it is the case for the Anastigmat Pionar f:6.3 lens mounted on the Baby Lyra presented in this page at Asacame.

Notes

  1. Dates of the advertisements mentioned by Kokusan kamera no rekishi.
  2. Advertisement for the Semi Lyra, Baby Lyra and Lyra Six, originally published in the September 1937 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi in two parts, items 291–2 and 295. — The 1938 prices are taken from an advertisement for the Lyra range published in the September 1938 issue of Asahi Camera.

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