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The Kelly (ケリー) or Semi Kelly (セミケリー)[1] is a Japanese 4.5×6 folding camera, made by Miyoshi Kōgaku at the beginning of the 1940s.[2]
The camera is said to be a Baldax copy, with a front-cell focusing U.L.L. 75/3.5 lens and a Koho shutter giving T, B, 1–150 speeds.[3] It seems that Miyoshi took over the camera producing activity from Proud, and the Semi Kelly is perhaps related to the Semi Proud, another Baldax copy.
The Semi Kelly was featured in a column of the July 1941 issue of Asahi Camera.[4] The camera was mentioned as the Kelly in the official list of set prices compiled in October 1940 and published in January 1941, for ¥160.[5] It was again in a similar price list dated November 1941, where it was attributed to Miyoshi Kōgaku.[6]
Notes
- ↑ The camera is called Semi Kelly in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.336, and Kelly in the official price lists.
- ↑ Attribution to Miyoshi: "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku", type 3, section 7B, and Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.336, certainly after the July 1941 article in Asahi Camera.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.336, certainly after the July 1941 article in Asahi Camera.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.336.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku", type 3, section 7B.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku", type 3, section 7B.
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 92. (Unlike most other cameras covered in this book, no advertisement is reproduced.)
- "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō" (カメラの公定価格官報発表, Official announcement of the set prices of the cameras), November 1941. Extract of a table listing Japanese camera production and setting the retail prices, reproduced in "Bebī Semi Fāsuto 'Kore ha bebī wo nanotta semi-ki da'" (ベビーセミファースト"これはベビーを名乗ったセミ機だ", Baby Semi First, 'this is a Semi camera called Baby'), an article by Furukawa Yasuo (古川保男) in Camera Collectors' News no. 277 (July 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. P. 27. Type 3, section 7B.
- "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku" (国産写真機の公定価格, Set prices of the Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of October 25, 1940 and setting the retail prices from December 10, 1940. Published in Asahi Camera January 1941 and reproduced in 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. Pp.108—9. Type 3, section 7B.
The Semi Kelly is not listed in Sugiyama.
