Kinshō
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Kinshō Kōki Seisakusho (錦彰光機製作所, meaning Kinshō Optical Works) was a Japanese company based in Kyoto.[1]
It made the Vero Four camera and its Verona 60/3.5 three-element lens.[2] A K.S. logo was used on this camera, probably for Kinshō or Kinshō Seisakusho.
The company also made the Rapid-Presto shutter (T, B, 1–500) mounted on the Semi Rosen U and on the Primo, perhaps a name variant of the Rapid-Vero shutter of the Vero Four.[3] This shutter sometimes has a K.S. FABRIK marking. The same marking is also reported on the back on the Semi Rosen U,[4] which was perhaps made by the company too.
Kinshō also made the KP III shutter mounted on at least one version of the Mulix.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Its address in 1943 was Kyōto-shi Kamigyō-ku Kita-Ōjidōri Horikawa-kado (京都市上京区北大路通堀川角). Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 153, lens item K4.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), shutter item 18-R-4.
- ↑ Example described in an online auction.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), shutter item 18-P-9.
Bibliography
- "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.
