Kadera

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The Kadera (カデラー) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folding camera attributed to Ōmiya Shashin-yōhin and about which very few is known.[1] (Kadera was also the name of a 75mm f/3.5 three-element lens made by Gojō, successor of Kajiro Kōgaku, and mounted on the Semi Kinka in 1943.)[2]

The Kadera camera was featured in the new products column of the January 1939 issue of Asahi Camera.[3] It is said to have a folding optical finder.[4] The lens was a front-cell focusing Kadera 75/4.5, probably made by Kajiro Kōgaku, and the shutter is said to give T, B, 25–100 speeds.[5]

Notes

  1. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 335.
  2. "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item Lb10.
  3. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 335.
  4. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 335.
  5. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 335.

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 54. (Unlike most other cameras covered in this book, no advertisement is reproduced.)
  • "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7. The Kadera camera is not directly listed in this document.

The Kadera is not listed in Sugiyama.