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* {{Showa10}} Item 233. (Unlike most other entries in this book, no advertisement is reproduced and no picture is given.) | * {{Showa10}} Item 233. (Unlike most other entries in this book, no advertisement is reproduced and no picture is given.) | ||
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* {{McKeown12}} P. 944. | * {{McKeown12}} P. 944. | ||
The Freude is not listed in {{Sugiyama}}. | The Freude is not listed in {{Sugiyama}}. |
Revision as of 11:52, 29 May 2007
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.
The name "Freude" itself obviously comes from the German word freude (i.e. joy). It might have been an allusion to the first words of the Ode to Joy ("Freude, schöner Götterfunken") written by Friedrich Schiller and musically adapted by Ludwig van Beethoven's in his Ninth Symphony.
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.
Freude, Vanguard shutter, Freude Anastigmat 60mm f/3.5 lens n°2885.
Pictures courtesy of eBayer ipruksleica. (Image rights)
Evolution
The Freude was mentioned in the list of set prices compiled in October 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, and this page at Asacame.
- ↑ McKeown, p. 944, calls the camera "Vanguard" and does not mention the name of a maker.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 1, section 10 and type 2, section 7.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340.
Bibliography
- 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. Item 233. (Unlike most other entries in this book, no advertisement is reproduced and no picture is given.)
- Template:Kakaku1940 Type 1, section 10; type 2, section 7.
- McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). P. 944.
The Freude is not listed in Sugiyama.
Links
In Japanese:
- Freude among the A-Z 127 film cameras at Asacame