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=== 6×6 folder ===
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* [[Ruvinal folders|Ruvinal]]
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=== 6×6 TLR ===
 
=== 6×6 TLR ===

Revision as of 14:17, 27 October 2006

Eikō-Dō (栄光堂) was a Japanese camera distributor and perhaps maker. It was active as early as 1936. Until the war, it used the name Eikō-Dō Honten (榮光堂本店 in old writing) distributed various folders, like the Collex, National and Ugein, as well as an enlarger called Asia DO and filters called Gelmer.[1]

After the war, it seems that the company was reformed from 1951 to 1953 as Maki Shōji (槇商事) and called Eikō-Dō (栄光堂) again in 1953 and 1954, selling the Ruvinal folder (a continuation of the wartime Ugein) and the Ruvinal Flex TLR.[2]

120 film

4.5×6 folder

6×6 folder

6×6 TLR

  • Ruvinal Flex A, B
  • Ruvinal Flex IIIA, IIIB

127 film

4×6.5 folder

Notes

  1. Its address at the time was Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku Nishi-Kanda 1, 1 (東京市神田區西神田1ノ1). Source: advertisements by Eikō-Dō dated 1936 to 1943, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 72, 80–1 and 99–100.
  2. Its address from 1951 to 1954 was Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Maki-chō 1, 1 (東京都中央区槇町1の1). Source: advertisements by Maki Shōji and Eikō-Dō dated 1951 to 1954, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 210.

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