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The name '''Elbow''' was used on the Japanese 6×6 TLR [[Elbow flex]] and 6×6 folder Elbow Six, marked ''ELBOW CAMERA FIRM''. Japanese sites say that the company's name was Elbow Shōkai (エルボー商会); the word ''shōkai'' means "company" or "firm" but is generally used for wholesale or trade companies, so this sounds like a distributor's name. Elbow's address was 文京区駒込東方町94,<!-- I might guess the reading of 東方町 but I don't know it for sure. Incidentally, the address no longer exists; I mean, Bunkyou-ku has been rearranged since then. --> in Tokyo. | The name '''Elbow''' was used on the Japanese 6×6 TLR [[Elbow flex]] and 6×6 folder Elbow Six, marked ''ELBOW CAMERA FIRM''. Japanese sites say that the company's name was Elbow Shōkai (エルボー商会); the word ''shōkai'' means "company" or "firm" but is generally used for wholesale or trade companies, so this sounds like a distributor's name. Elbow's address was 文京区駒込東方町94,<!-- I might guess the reading of 東方町 but I don't know it for sure. Incidentally, the address no longer exists; I mean, Bunkyou-ku has been rearranged since then. --> in Tokyo. | ||
| − | The cameras were manufactured by Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku (東洋精機光学) and Kosumo (i.e. Cosmo) Kamera Seisakusho (コスモカメラ製作所): the two companies are named in advertisements appearing in magazines published in April and September 1955 respectively. | + | The cameras were manufactured by [[Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku]] (東洋精機光学) and Kosumo (i.e. Cosmo) Kamera Seisakusho (コスモカメラ製作所): the two companies are named in advertisements appearing in magazines published in April and September 1955 respectively. |
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==Source and further reading== | ==Source and further reading== | ||
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Revision as of 13:09, 27 July 2006
The name Elbow was used on the Japanese 6×6 TLR Elbow flex and 6×6 folder Elbow Six, marked ELBOW CAMERA FIRM. Japanese sites say that the company's name was Elbow Shōkai (エルボー商会); the word shōkai means "company" or "firm" but is generally used for wholesale or trade companies, so this sounds like a distributor's name. Elbow's address was 文京区駒込東方町94, in Tokyo.
The cameras were manufactured by Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku (東洋精機光学) and Kosumo (i.e. Cosmo) Kamera Seisakusho (コスモカメラ製作所): the two companies are named in advertisements appearing in magazines published in April and September 1955 respectively.
Source and further reading
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
