Kadera
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.[1] It is said to have a folding optical finder.[1] 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.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.335.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item Lb10.
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.
