Kōsoku
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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
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, and this page at Asacame.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Advertisement dated March 1942 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 107.
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.
