Mulix
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 Kuwata Shōkai, probably the distributor's name.
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.
