Bonny Six

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The Bonny Six (ボニー・シックス) is a Japanese 6×6 folding camera. It was advertised by Ōmiya Shashin-yōhin in 1941–2.[1] It is said that it was made by a company called Yamato, but that is certainly not the same company as Yamato Kōki Kōgyō that made the Pax after the war.[2]

Description of the body

The Bonny Six is a horizontal folder, copy of the Ikonta 6×6. It has a folding optical finder in the middle of the top plate, a body release, an advance key at the top left and strap lugs at both ends. The back is hinged to the right. The front leather is embossed BONNY SIX.

Lens and shutter equipment

An advertisement dated October 1942[3] lists two versions of the Bonny Six, both with a Bonny Anastigmat 75mm f/4.5 lens:

  • Bonny Six I: T, B, 5–200 speeds;
  • Bonny Six II: T, B, 1–200 speeds.

The only surviving example observed so far is the Bonny Six I pictured in McKeown.[4]

Notes

  1. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 341, mentions advertisements dated 1942. The Nostalgic Camera page by Toshio Inamura shows a reproduction of an advertisement dated 1941.
  2. McKeown, p. 1021, attributes it to the same "Yamato Koki Kogyo Co., Ltd." but this company only took this name in 1944 according to its official chronology. Before that it was called Kikuchi Seisakusho. This thread of the Shashinki no Mori forum says that the Bonny Six was made by a "Yamato Camera Co." founded around 1938, about which nothing else is known.
  3. Published in Shashin Bunka, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 92.
  4. McKeown, p. 1021.

Bibliography

This camera is not listed in Sugiyama.

Links

In Japanese: