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, means Ehira Optical Works) and logo was Ehira KSK. Ehira was the name of someone: Ehira Shinjirō (江平信次郎). Ehira made rangefinder cameras, folding or rigid, with a coupled rangefinder looking like the Super Ikonta.

• Weha Chrome Six, 1937
• Weha Chrome Six II, 1938
• Weha Chrome Six III or Ehira Chrome Six, 1940
• Ehira Six, postwar, reported with Lansar 85/3.5 (mistake for Lausar?), Ehira Rapid shutter

A Weha Light 6.5x9 folding plate camera is mentioned in McKeown under Ehira, but there is some doubt. At the Japanese site ksmt.com (see here and here), there is a mention of the Weha Light as made or sold around 1930 by Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, means Yamamoto camera shop), who was also the distributor of the Weha Chrome Six. The name Weha possibly belonged to this distributor. It is unknown if it is related to the Yamamoto company who sold the Semi Kinka.

A 6x6 folding camera has been sold at an ebay auction as a Weha Six. It had a body release, a black tubular optical finder, a 400-1-B-T shutter marked Kōki T.T.S.H. and a 75/3.5 lens marked Weha Anastigmat.

An accessory rangefinder marked WEHA in a box marked WEHA Range Finder has been sold at a Yahoo Japan auction.