Ehira

Ehira was a Japanese camera maker before and after World War II. Full name was Ehira Kōki Seisakusho (江平光機製作所) and logo was Ehira KSK. Ehira was the name of someone: Ehira Shinjirō (江平信次郎). Made the Ehira Chrome Six or Weha Chrome Six, a 6x6 camera with lens and shutter mounted on a telescopic tube and a coupled rangefinder using the Super Ikonta system.

• Weha Chrome Six (1937): shutter Auto Rapid Ehira Patents T-B-1-400, lens Weha Anastigmat 75/3.5
• Weha Chrome Six II (1938)
• Weha Chrome Six III (1940)
• Ehira Six, known with Lansar 85/3.5, Ehira Rapid shutter

Links

• Weha Chrome Six at the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology