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*Advertisement by Tanaka Shōkai. ''Nihon Camera'' (日本カメラ) February 1953. p. 104. The advertisement is for an unspecified model of Alpenflex (apparently the I or IS and probably the former as a self-timer is not mentioned).
 
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*Kanno <!-- I don't know the reading of his personal name -->(管野経敏). "Alpenflex." In ''Miryoku saihakken: Nigan refu: Firumu kamera ha e no messēji'' (魅力再発見・二眼レフ:フィルムカメラ派へのメッセージ, Fascination rediscovery: TLRs: A message to film cameras). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppansha,<!-- Yes, this is how the company writes its name. --> 2006. pp.&nbsp;118&ndash;9.
 
*Kanno <!-- I don't know the reading of his personal name -->(管野経敏). "Alpenflex." In ''Miryoku saihakken: Nigan refu: Firumu kamera ha e no messēji'' (魅力再発見・二眼レフ:フィルムカメラ派へのメッセージ, Fascination rediscovery: TLRs: A message to film cameras). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppansha,<!-- Yes, this is how the company writes its name. --> 2006. pp.&nbsp;118&ndash;9.

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Hachiyo Optical Co. (Hachiyō Kōgaku Kōgyō, 八陽光学工業) is a Japanese company known for making Alpenflex and Stereo Alpen cameras.

The company had its origin in a fortified factory set up during the war by Nihon Kōgaku in Yamagata Prefecture (in the north of Japan's main island).[1] In an advertisement for the Alpenflex I (or IS), Tanaka Shōkai makes explicit Hachiyo's origin as the Shiojiri (塩尻) factory of Nihon Kōgaku, and also uses Hachiyo's manufacture of microscopes as a sales point.[2]

The company went out of business in 1955.[3]

Notes

  1. Kanno, p. 118.
  2. Advertisement in the February 1953 issue of Nihon Camera, p. 104.
  3. Kyōshū no burando ten, p. 20.

Sources / further reading

  • Advertisement by Tanaka Shōkai. Nihon Camera (日本カメラ) February 1953. p. 104. The advertisement is for an unspecified model of Alpenflex (apparently the I or IS and probably the former as a self-timer is not mentioned).
  • 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.
  • Kanno (管野経敏). "Alpenflex." In Miryoku saihakken: Nigan refu: Firumu kamera ha e no messēji (魅力再発見・二眼レフ:フィルムカメラ派へのメッセージ, Fascination rediscovery: TLRs: A message to film cameras). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppansha, 2006. pp. 118–9.
  • Nihon no kamera o omoshiroku shita kyōshū no burando ten (日本のカメラを面白くした郷愁のブランド展, Exhibition of nostalgic brands that made Japanese cameras interesting). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 1997. Exhibition catalogue.