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'''Kōsoku-sha''' (光測社) was probably a Japanese camera maker. It is said that it made the [[Freude]] around 1942.<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, and [http://asacame.fc2web.com/hspbestaz/bestf.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF> It might be the same company as [[Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha]] which made the [[Rorter Ref]]. The name Kōsoku also appears as the shutter name (in ''katakana'': コーソク) in an advertisement for the [[Romax (6&times;6)]].<REF> Advertisement dated March 1942 reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;107. </REF>
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'''Kōsoku-sha''' (光測社) was probably a Japanese camera maker. It is said that it made the [[Freude]] around 1942.<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;340, and [http://asacame.fc2web.com/hspbestaz/bestf.htm this page at Asacame]. </REF> It might be the same company as Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha.
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== Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha ==
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'''Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha''' (東京光測精機社) was a Japanese camera maker based in Tokyo in the first half of the 1940s.<REF> Its address was Tōkyō-shi Kyōbashi-ku Ginza 8-chōme 3-banchi (東京市京橋区銀座八丁目三番地). Source: advertisement reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;105. </REF> It made the [[Rorter Ref]] from 1941 to 1944. It might be the same company as Kōsoku-sha.
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== Kōsoku shutter ==
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The name Kōsoku appears as the shutter name (in ''katakana'': コーソク) in an advertisement for the [[Romax (6&times;6)]].<REF> Advertisement dated March 1942 reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;107. </REF>
  
 
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Kōsoku-sha

Kōsoku-sha (光測社) was probably a Japanese camera maker. It is said that it made the Freude around 1942.[1] It might be the same company as Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha.

Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha

Tōkyō Kōsoku Seiki-sha (東京光測精機社) was a Japanese camera maker based in Tokyo in the first half of the 1940s.[2] It made the Rorter Ref from 1941 to 1944. It might be the same company as Kōsoku-sha.

Kōsoku shutter

The name Kōsoku appears as the shutter name (in katakana: コーソク) in an advertisement for the Romax (6×6).[3]

Notes

  1. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, and this page at Asacame.
  2. Its address was Tōkyō-shi Kyōbashi-ku Ginza 8-chōme 3-banchi (東京市京橋区銀座八丁目三番地). Source: advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 105.
  3. Advertisement dated March 1942 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 107.

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