Condor Camera

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Nissan Kōgaku Kōgyō-sha (日産光學工業社) is a Japanese company that produced the Condor folders from 1939. Its name appears in 1939 advertisements for the Semi Condor and Condor Six[1]. Later advertisements from 1940 or 1941[2] show the company name Condor Camera Works, written in Roman letters.

McKeown also mentions and pictures a Centre Six 6×6 horizontal folder under the "Nissan Kogaku" entry. Indeed the lens is written CENTRE ACHROMAT and NISSAN KOGAKU.

In the 1950s, a Condor 35mm rangefinder camera, styled after the Nikon S2, is attributed by various sources[3] to a company called Condor Camera. Moreover, the names Delta and Deller observed on one example of these cameras are very similar to the lens name (デルター, maybe Deltar) of the Condor folders. It is probable that the company is the same.

Notes

  1.  Advertisement for the Semi Condor and Condor Six, published in the Aug 1939 and Sep 1939 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, item 115–6.
  2.  McKeown, this page of the AJCC and this page at Asacame.

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