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The Mulix (マリックス) was a Japanese 6×6 folding camera. It is an ordinary copy of the Ikonta B, with a folding finder, a key to advance the film, strap lugs and a body release. The camera was fitted with one or other four-element "Mulixar" lens.
Some advertisements show two versions (not distinguished by name in any way) with a choice between (a) an f:4.5 lens and speeds of 1/5 to 1/250 and (b) an f:3.5 lens and speeds of 1 to 1/500.
In other advertisements, model I was offered for ¥93, with a f:4.5 lens and slow speeds to 1/5s, model II with slow speeds to 1s and was offered with a f:3.5 lens for ¥154; model III with a f:4.5 lens and slow speeds to 1/5s for ¥125. (Oddly, these advertisements do not mention top speeds.) Various Mulix filters were offered to go with the camera, each at ¥5.80.
The only company name is K.K. Kuwata Shōkai (株式会社桑田商会), based in Osaka, probably the distributor's name. The same name appears in ads for the Mulber Six.
In this article, the katakana script マリックス (marikkusu) has been romanized as "Mulix", because a camera has been advertised for sale by a reputable dealer as a Mulix Six with a 75mm f3.5 Mulixar. No other information has been found. Meanwhile, the advertisement anthology described below calls it "Malix".
Source / further reading
- 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 256.
