Honor S1
The Honor 35 (オーナー35) or Honor S1 (オーナーS1) is a Japanese Leica copy, made from 1956 to 1959 by Mejiro Kōgaku, later Zuihō Kōgaku. It seems that the project was originally developed by Daiichi Kōgaku as the Ichicon-35 around 1954, before that company went bankrupt. The camera was succeeded in 1959 by the Honor SL.
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Description
The Honor is copied on the Leica screw models, with a horizontally running focal-plane shutter and a screw mount lens.
The camera has a die-cast body and an integral top plate, as on the Leica IIIc and later. The position of the controls — advance knob, exposure counter, release button, rewind lever, speed dial and rewind knob — is the same as on the Leica. The advance knob contains a film reminder disc at the top. The main speed dial normally has the following positions: B, 25–1 (in red), 50, 75, 100, 200, 500, and the slow speed dial at the front has T, 1, 2, 4, 8, 25. The camera is synchronized for flash, and has two PC sockets at the front.
The eyepieces of the viewfinder and rangefinder are separate parts, spaced by a few millimetres only, a configuration which is intermediate between the Leica IIIa and IIIb. The rangefinder eyepiece has a diopter correction lever, shaped the same as on the Leica IIIa. The rangefinder has 1.5× magnification and 38mm distance between the two windows, giving 57mm effective base.[1] The viewfinder window is surrounded by a thin rectangular bump, and there is a small screw on the side, certainly for rangefinder adjustment. There is a small hump under the rewind knob, as on the Leica IIIc, but this is a stylistic feature only.
Notes
- ↑ Yamashita, p.105 of Shashin Kōgyō August 1956, gives the physical spacing and effective base; the magnification is deduced by dividing the two.
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 1138–9.
- Awano Mikio (粟野幹男). "Ōnā 35 S1" (オーナー35S1, Honor 35 S1). In Camera Collectors' News no.35 (May 1980). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha.
- HPR. Leica Copies. London: Classic Collection Publications, 1994. ISBN 1-874485-05-4. Pp.183–90.
- 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.1064.
- Pont, P.-H., and Princelle, J.-L. 300 Leica Copies. Neuilly: Fotosaga, 1990. ISBN 2-906840-03-3. Pp.200–2.
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5. Items 3273–4.
Links
In English:
- Honor family, Honor S1 and W.Honor 35mm f/3.5 lens at Pacific Rim Camera
- Honor S1 at Kuroneko Camera
- Honor family at Nekosan's website
- Honor S1 at Ian Norris' Prime Lens
- Past sales by Westlicht:
- Honor S1 with Hexar 50mm f/3.5: lot no.407 of auction no.9 (May 20, 2006)
- Honor S1 with Hexanon 50mm f/1.9: lot no.261 of auction no.10 (November 18, 2006)
- Honor S1 with Honor 50mm f/2: lot no.340 of auction no.12 (November 17, 2007)
- Honor S1 with Honor 50mm f/2: lot no.408 of the October 28, 2007 auction by Skinner
- Honor S1 with Hexanon 50mm f/1.9: lot no.21 at January 28, 2007 auction by Tamarkin
