Eikōdō
Eikō-Dō (榮光堂) was a Japanese camera distributor and perhaps maker. It was active as early as 1936. Until the war, it distributed various folders, like the Collex, National and Ugein, as well as an enlarger called Asia DO.[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 again in 1953 and 1954, selling the Ruvinal folder (a continuation of the wartime Ugein) and the Ruvinal Flex TLR.[2]
Contents
120 film
4.5×6 folder
6×6 folder
- National Six
- National Six II
- National Six III
- Ugein III (6×6)
- Ugein (dual-format)
- Ruvinal
- Ruvinal III
- Ruvinal A, B
6×6 TLR
- Ruvinal Flex A, B
- Ruvinal Flex IIIA, IIIB
127 film
4×6.5 folder
- National (dual-format)
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
