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|| ''Left: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/4.5 lens no.79355 on a [[Nifca and Molta plate folders|Lomax]].''<br>''Right: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/6.3 lens no.96185 on a [[Tokiwa plate folders|Tokiwa No.3]].''<br>''Pictures courtesy of eBayer hbpartner. {{with permission}}''
 
|| ''Left: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/4.5 lens no.79355 on a [[Nifca and Molta plate folders|Lomax]].''<br>''Right: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/6.3 lens no.96185 on a [[Tokiwa plate folders|Tokiwa No.3]].''<br>''Pictures courtesy of eBayer hbpartner. {{with permission}}''
 
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The '''Heliostar''' lenses were made by the German company [[Steinheil]], based in München. They are found on various Japanese cameras of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and it seems that the Heliostar trademark was used for export to Japan only. The full engraving is ''M. Steinheil München Heliostar'' on the early lenses, replaced by ''Heliostar Anastigmat München'' with no indication of origin of the later lenses.<REF> The early marking is visible in [http://asacame.fc2web.com/htmfolding/sirius.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF> In the marking, the word "Heliostar" is easily mistaken for ''Hellostar''.
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The '''Heliostar''' lenses were made by the German company [[Steinheil]], based in München. They are found on various Japanese cameras of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and it seems that the Heliostar trademark was used for export to Japan only. The full engraving is ''M. Steinheil München Heliostar'' on the early lenses, replaced by ''Heliostar Anastigmat München'' with no indication of the company on the later lenses.<REF> The early marking is visible in [http://asacame.fc2web.com/htmfolding/sirius.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF> In the marking, the word "Heliostar" is easily mistaken for ''Hellostar''.
  
 
== List of cameras equipped ==
 
== List of cameras equipped ==

Revision as of 22:27, 20 August 2008

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Left: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/4.5 lens no.79355 on a Lomax.
Right: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/6.3 lens no.96185 on a Tokiwa No.3.
Pictures courtesy of eBayer hbpartner. (Image rights)

The Heliostar lenses were made by the German company Steinheil, based in München. They are found on various Japanese cameras of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and it seems that the Heliostar trademark was used for export to Japan only. The full engraving is M. Steinheil München Heliostar on the early lenses, replaced by Heliostar Anastigmat München with no indication of the company on the later lenses.[1] In the marking, the word "Heliostar" is easily mistaken for Hellostar.

List of cameras equipped

This list is incomplete, and not all the versions have a Heliostar lens:

Enlarging lenses

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Left: Heliostar Anastigmat München 105mm f/6.3 enlarging lens no.94093. Picture courtesy of Jay Tepper. (Image rights)
Right: Asanuma Shōkai catalogue dated October 1941, listing the Heliostar 105mm f/6.3 enlarging lens. (Image rights)

The Heliostar 105mm f/6.3 lens was also supplied for enlargers.[2] It was listed in an Asanuma Shōkai catalogue as late as October 1941, for ¥33.43.[3]

Table of known lenses

Lens numbers are known in a wide range: lowest is 73230 and highest is 96185. Here is a list of the Heliostar lenses observed so far (the sources are indicated in the footnotes or in the page on the corresponding cameras):

lens number lens type shutter camera
73230 105mm f/6.3
(Steinheil marking)		 Koilos Sirius
73x25 105mm f/6.3
(Steinheil marking)		 Koilos Sirius
7427x 105mm f/4.5 Koilos Sirius
75004 75mm f/6.3 Koilos Nifcarette
75739 105mm f/4.5 Neuheil Arcadia
75791 130mm f/4.5 Ibsor Weha
78237 130mm f/4.5 Neuheil Weha
7912x 105mm f/4.5 Neuheil Weha
79355 105mm f/4.5 Koilos Lomax
81392 105mm f/4.5 Lidex unknown[4]
81897 105mm f/4.5 Lidex Happy
84086 105mm f/6.3 Neuheil Weha
84311 105mm f/6.3 Koilos Tokiwa
861x1 105mm f/4.5 Koilos unknown[5]
8758x 105mm f/4.5 Lidex Weha
94093 105mm f/6.3 _ enlarger[6]
96185 105mm f/6.3 Lidex C Tokiwa

Notes

  1. ↑ The early marking is visible in this page at Asacame.
  2. ↑ Examples pictured in this article, in this page at Takasaki Motohiro's website, and observed in an online auction on a CH enlarger.
  3. ↑ Catalogue by Asanuma Shōkai dated October 1941, p.16.
  4. ↑ Lens pictured in Yazawa, p.16 of Camera Collectors' News no.56.
  5. ↑ Camera pictured in this page at Monomono.
  6. ↑ Lens pictured in this article.

Bibliography

  • Asanuma Shōkai. Shashinki to zairyō (写真機と材料, Cameras and supplies). Catalogue dated October 1941. Pp.7 and 9. Document partly reproduced in this Flickr album by Rebollo_fr.
  • Kamera no mekanizumu sono I: "Hai! Chīzu" Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten (カメラのメカニズム・そのⅠ・「ハイ！チーズ」瞬間をとらえ続けるシャッター展, Camera mechanism, part 1 "Cheese!" Exhibition of instant taking shutters). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 2002. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number) P.21. (Has a picture of a Heliostar 105mm f/4.5 lens in a Lidex shutter.)
  • Yazawa Seiichirō (矢沢征一郎). "Shashin renzu hattatsu-shi dai-12-kai: Kokusan renzu no rekishi (zenpen)" (写真レンズ発達史第12回・国産レンズの歴史[前編], History of the development of photographic lenses no.12: History of the Japanese lenses [first part]). In Camera Collectors' News no.56 (February 1982). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.11–6. (Shows a picture of a Heliostar lens.)

Links

In Japanese:

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