Kikōdō
Kikō-dō (暿光堂) was a Japanese distributor. In 1934, the company asked Umemoto Kinzaburō (梅本金三郎) to set up a camera plant, that would become Umemoto Seisakusho, founded in 1935.[1] It sold the cameras made by Umemoto until the war.
After the war, there was a company called Bikō-Dō Seisakusho (美光堂製作所) or Super Photo (スーパー写真), that made a series of 6×6 TLRs called Superflex, but it is probably unrelated.
Cameras distributed
- Super Makinet Six 6×6 strut-folder by Umemoto
- Super Flex Baby 4×4 SLR by Umemoto
Cameras sold as authorized dealer
- Wester or Semi Wester 4.5×6 folder by Nishida
Other
- Super accessory rangefinder (sold ¥15 in 1937)[2]
Notes
- ↑ Umemoto company history.
- ↑ Advertisement dated April 1937 for the Super Makinet Six, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 94.
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