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The '''Freude''' or '''Freude J'''<REF> The name Freude J is given in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, probably after a column in the April 1942 issue of ''Asahi Camera''. </REF> is a Japanese camera taking 4&times;4cm exposures on [[127 film]]. It is said that it was made around 1942 by the company [[Kōsoku|Kōsoku-sha]].<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, and [http://asacame.fc2web.com/hspbestaz/bestf.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF>
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The '''Freude'''<REF> The camera is called "Freude Camera J" (フロイドカメラJ) in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, probably after a column in the April 1942 issue of ''Asahi Camera''. </REF> is a Japanese camera taking 4&times;4cm exposures on [[127 film]]. It is said that it was made around 1942 by the company [[Kōsoku|Kōsoku-sha]].<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, and [http://asacame.fc2web.com/hspbestaz/bestf.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF>
  
 
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The Freude[1] is a Japanese camera taking 4×4cm exposures on 127 film. It is said that it was made around 1942 by the company Kōsoku-sha.[2]

Name

The camera is sometimes called "Vanguard" by mistake[3], because of the shutter marking and because the name Freude is not written anywhere on the camera itself. However the case is marked FREUDE in two places, thus confirming the name.

It seems obvious that this name comes from the German word freud (i.e. friend). (At about the same time, another Japanese camera was called the same in French: Ami, and some five years ago there was a Friend.)

Description

The Freude has an all metal body and a telescopic tube supporting the lens and shutter assembly.

There is a top housing containing the viewfinder in the middle and supporting an accessory shoe to the right. The advance knob is at the left end, with a black arrow engraved to indicate the winding direction. Next to it is an exposure counter window. There are levers or buttons that are probably used to reset the exposure counter and to unlock film advance after each exposure.

Film is loaded through the bottom plate, that is locked in place by a rotating button in the middle, with L and O positions (surely for Lock and Open). There is a film flange on each side of the bottom plate . The back contains a single red window at the middle right, protected by a horizontally sliding cover. It is used to set the first exposure.

The lens is a Freude Anastigmat 60mm f/3.5 and the aperture is set by an index placed above the shutter housing.

The shutter is said to be a Vanguard A.[4] It gives 300–1, B, T speeds engraved in that order. The release lever is situated on the shutter housing. The shutter plate is marked VANGUARD at the bottom, EXTRA CORONIAL[5] at the top and there is a V G D logo on the right.


Evolution

The Freude was mentioned in the Template:Kakaku1940 short, compiled on October 25, 1940 and published in January 1941, under the names "Freude I" (¥125) and "Freude II" (¥92), with no further detail.[6] The Freude was also featured in a column of the April 1942 issue of Asahi Camera,[7] and no other information is available.

Variations have been observed in the position of the exposure counter window, in the advance unlock and counter reset levers, in the shape and finish (chrome or black) of the bottom film flanges and in the shape of the lens bezel.

Notes

  1. The camera is called "Freude Camera J" (フロイドカメラJ) in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, probably after a column in the April 1942 issue of Asahi Camera.
  2. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, and this page at Asacame.
  3. McKeown, p. 944, calls the camera "Vanguard" and does not mention the name of a maker.
  4. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340.
  5. It seems that "Coronial" is a typo for "Colonial", made likely by the fact that the "r" and "l" sounds are not distinguished in the Japanese phonology.
  6. Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 1, section 10 and type 2, section 7.
  7. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340.

Bibliography

The Freude is not listed in Sugiyama.

Links

In Japanese: