Doris Six

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The Doris Six is a Japanese 6×6 folding camera, made by Doris Camera around 1955.[1]

Original model

The Doris Six is a horizontal folder, with folding struts inspired from the Ikonta. There is a low top housing covering all the top plate, with a hump offset to the right, containing the viewfinder. This arrangement looks like a reversed Carl Six. There is an accessory shoe on the left of the finder and an advance knob on the left end. The body release is on the right of the finder and the right end is occupied by some decorative knob, maybe a film reminder. It is unknown if the camera is single or dual format, allowing 4.5×6 exposures.

In an advertisement dated May 1955[2], the Doris Six is offered for ¥8,800 with a Delta 75/3.5 lens and a synchronized shutter, giving B, 1–200 speeds and equipped with a self-timer.

Possible other versions

McKeown mentions a dual-format Doris Six II with a Doris Anastigmat 75/3.5 lens and a Convex B, 1–200 shutter[3], and a dual-format rangefinder model called "Doris IIIA" or more probably Doris Six IIIA.[4]

Notes

  1. The advertisements mentioned in, Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 356, are all dated 1955.
  2. Advertisement published in Ars Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 153.
  3. Convex shutters are also mentioned on the wartime Zeitax and on the Semi Rocket and Doris.
  4. McKeown, pp. 927–8.

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