Mizuho (Kuribayashi)
The Mizuho (ミズホ) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folder made by Kuribayashi at the beginning of the 1940s, and about which very few is known. At the time, Kuribayashi was already making three distinct lines of 4.5×6 folders: the Semi First, the Baby Semi First and the Semi Rotte, each with a different body. It is not known if the Mizuho was related to one of these of if it was yet another model. (The same question arises about the Hokoku.)
This Mizuho is certainly unrelated to the postwar Mizuho cameras.
Documents
The Template:Kakaku1940 short, compiled on October 25, 1940 and published in January 1941, listed a "Mizuho Semi" (ミズホセミ) for ¥74, with no further detail.[1]
The "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943, mentioned a Mizuho 4.5×6 folder made and distributed by Kuribayashi, with a Mizuho f/4.5 three-element lens made by Ogasawara and a Mizuho shutter (5–150, T, B), made by Kuribayashi itself and identical to the First I shutter.[2]
No surviving example of the Mizuho has been observed so far.
Notes
- ↑ Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 3, sections 4A.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 68, lens item Lc15, shutter item 24-P-2.
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. Item 68.
- Template:Kakaku1940
This camera is not listed in Sugiyama nor in Kokusan kamera no rekishi.