Kurashikku Kamera Senka

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー：クラシックカメラ専科, Camera review: A special course in classic cameras) was a Japanese quarterly devoted to classic cameras, published in Tokyo by Asahi Sonorama. Each issue has well over a hundred pages, few of which are used for advertising. The main area of interest was cameras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Although Leica cameras were predictably covered with a degree of attention that seems obsessive (even ludicrous or pathological), the magazine was otherwise fairly democratic, willing to devote entire articles to much less prestigious brands, such as Mycro.

Each issue clearly announces its main subject of interest on the front cover, and this cover story accounts for a large percentage of the content. A less conspicuous cover story can also account for many pages: thus for example issue 23 has over sixty pages on vintage lenses and over twenty on Topcon leaf-shutter SLRs.

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka started as a supplement to another periodical, Kamera Rebyū (Camera Review), and so for example issue 8 of the former, published in autumn 1986, describes itself (conspicuously, on the front) as a separate issue (別冊, bessatsu) of, and (inconspicuously, on the back) as issue 45 of Kamera Rebyū.^[1] Later issues of Kurashikku Kamera Senka do not mention being special issues of something else. It became a quarterly from no. 19 (December 1991). The magazine ceased its publication after issue no.84 (June 2007).

Although the periodical has an English subtitle (Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras), its content is entirely in Japanese. Back issues are not only available from the publisher but also routinely stocked by camera stores in Japan: the recent issues have ISBN numbers and they are retailed just like books.

Famous camera families

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 4, March 1984. No ISBN number. Meiki no keifu (名機の系譜, special issue on famous camera families). (Template:KKS004)

Secrets of famous cameras

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 6, September 1985. No ISBN number. Meiki no himitsu (名機の秘密, secrets of famous cameras). (Template:KKS006)

Spring cameras (1)

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 8, September 1986. No ISBN number. Supuringu kamera (スプリングカメラ, special issue on spring cameras). (Template:KKS008)

35mm SLR

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 9, March 1987. No ISBN number. 35mm ichigan-refu kamera (35mm一眼レフカメラ, special issue on 35mm SLR cameras). (Template:KKS009)

Konishiroku

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 10, September 1987. No ISBN number. Konishiroku kamera no rekishi (小西六カメラの歴史, special issue on Konishiroku). (Template:KKS010)

Unknown cameras

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 11, March 1988. No ISBN number. Shirarezaru kamera (知られざるカメラ, special issue on unknown cameras). (Template:KKS011)

Minolta

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 12, October 1988. No ISBN number. Minoruta kamera no subete (ミノルタカメラのすべて, special issue on Minolta). (Template:KKS012)

Ricoh

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 14, October 1989. No ISBN number. Rikō kamera no subete (リコーカメラのすべて, special issue on Ricoh). (Template:KKS014)

Olympus

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 20, 25 March 1992. No ISBN number. Orinpasu no subete (オリンパスのすべて, special issue on Olympus). (Template:KKS020)

Aires

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 22, September 1992. No ISBN number. Airesu no subete (アイレスのすべて, special issue on Aires). (Template:KKS022)

Lenses and Topcon 35mm leaf shutter SLR family

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 23, December 1992. No ISBN number. Mei-renzu wo sagase (名レンズを探せ！, Look for famous lenses!) and Topukon 35mm renzu-shattā ichigan-refu no keifu (トプコン３５mmレンズシャッター一眼レフの系譜, Topcon 35mm leaf shutter SLR family). (Template:KKS023)

Yashica / Kyocera

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 26, September 1993. No ISBN number. Yashika Kyōsera Kontakkusu no subete (ヤシカ・京セラ・コンタックスのすべて, special issue on Yashica, Kyocera and Contax). (Template:KKS026)

Stereo

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no. 27, December 1993. No ISBN number. Stereo World (ステレオワールド). (Template:KKS027)

Modern classics and Contax lenses

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 29, June 1994. No ISBN number. Modan kurashikku (モダンクラシック, special issue on modern classics) and Kontakkusu renzu wo tanoshimu (コンタックスレンズを楽しむ, let's enjoy Contax lenses). (Template:KKS029)

Fifty years

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 35, November 1995. No ISBN number. Nihon no kamera 50nen (日本のカメラ50年, special issue on 50 years of Japanese cameras). (Template:KKS035)

Short articles on each of a list of the best and a list of the "unique", as jointly compiled by a large number of camera historians, photographers, etc.

Modern classic lenses

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 39, September 1996. ISBN 4-257-13007-5. Modan kurashikku renzu-hen (特集：モダンクラシックレンズ編, Modern classic lenses). (Template:KKS039)

Kowa and Russian cameras

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 40, December 1996. ISBN 4-257-13007-5. Kōwa no subete (特集：R型ライカのすべて, All of Kowa) and Roshia kamera korekushon (ロシアカメラコレクション, Russian camera collection). (Template:KKS040)

Leica R

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 41, March 1997. ISBN 4-257-13008-3. Tokushū: R-gata Raika no subete (特集：R型ライカのすべて, special issue on the Leica R). (Template:KKS041)

Around seventy pages are devoted to the Leicaflex and Leica R system. The rest is mostly about Leica rangefinder models, Leica thread mount and Leica M mount lenses.

Viva Italia

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 43, September 1997. ISBN 4-257-13012-1. Tokushū: Viva! Itaria (特集：富士写真フィルムのカメラ, special issue on Italian cameras). (Template:KKS043)

Fuji

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 44, December 1997. ISBN 4-257-13013-X. Tokushū: Fuji Shashin Firumu no kamera (特集：富士写真フィルムのカメラ, special issue on the cameras of Fuji Photo Film). (Template:KKS044)

Almost a hundred pages are devoted to Fujica and Fuji cameras. Of this, about seventy are taken up by a catalogue by Koyasu Yoshinobu of the still cameras.

American 35mm lens-shutter cameras

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 49, December 1998. ISBN 4-257-13022-9. Amerika-sei 35mm renzu-shattā kamera (アメリカ製35mmレンズシャッターカメラ, issue about American 35mm lens-shutter cameras). (Template:KKS049)

Classic camera special

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 51, June 1999. ISBN 4-257-13024-5. Kurashikku kamera supesharu (クラシックカメラスペシャル, issue about miscellaneous classic cameras). (Template:KKS051)

Fifty camera stories

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 53, December 1999. ISBN 4-257-13026-1. Tokushū: 50-nin no korekutā ni kiku watakushi no ichi-dai (特集:50人のコレクターに聞く私の1題, 50 stories told by camera collectors). (Template:KKS053)

Modern classics: rollfilm

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 56, September 2000. ISBN 4-257-13029-6. Tokushū: Modan kurashikku rōrufirumu-hen (特集:モダンクラシック・ロールフィルム編, Modern classics, rollfilm edition). (Template:KKS056)

Leica book '01

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 58, March 2001. ISBN 4-257-13032-6. Tokushū: Raika bukku '01 Raika kenkyū (特集:ライカブック'01・ライカ研究, Leica book '01: Leica research). (Template:KKS058)

TLR cameras

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 62, December 2001. ISBN 4-257-13040-7. Tokushū: Tanoshiku tsukau nigan-refu (特集:楽しく使う二眼レフ, special issue on TLR cameras). (Template:KKS062)

Spring cameras (2)

Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュークラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras 76, June 2005. ISBN 4-257-13078-4. Kurashikku kamera katachi to kinō 'supuringu kamera hen' (クラシックカメラ形と機能「スプリングカメラ編」, special issue on spring cameras). (Template:KKS076)

Sixty-four pages of this issue are devoted to spring cameras: not only the more obvious older models but also such newer ones as the Ricoh FF-1. Dozens more pages cover a variety of other subjects, e.g. a heavily illustrated five-page explanation of how to dismantle an Auto Semi Minolta.

Note

↑ This parent periodical, which had a tie-up with the US monthly magazine Modern Photography, started with an October 1977 issue; from no. 11 (July 1980) it came out once every two months, from no. 31 (October 1983) it became a quarterly, and it ended with no. 33 (April 1984). Source for publishing history: Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の奇跡), catalogue of an exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of the JCII library, Tokyo.

[1] This parent periodical, which had a tie-up with the US monthly magazine Modern Photography, started with an October 1977 issue; from no. 11 (July 1980) it came out once every two months, from no. 31 (October 1983) it became a quarterly, and it ended with no. 33 (April 1984). Source for publishing history: Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の奇跡), catalogue of an exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of the JCII library, Tokyo.

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