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'''Neumann & Heilemann''' was a company founded in the 1930s by Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, two Germans living in Japan. They had previously helped Kazuo Tashima to found the Nichi-Doku company that would become [[Minolta]]. They made the Rulex shutters and they also made cameras.
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'''Neumann & Heilemann''' was a company founded in the 1930s by Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, two Germans living in Japan. They had previously helped Kazuo Tashima to found the Nichi-Doku company that would become [[Minolta]]. They made the Rulex shutters and they also made cameras. Their logo was ''NH'' inside a circle.
  
 
There is sporadic reference to the following models:
 
There is sporadic reference to the following models:
 
* Condor
 
* Condor
* Perfekt
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* Perfekt ? (maybe a mistake, some shutters were named Perfekt)
* Prince
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* Prince ?
* Princeflex
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* [[Princeflex]], the first Japanese TLR
  
The Princeflex was the first Japanese TLR in 1937.
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Cameras equipped with Neumann & Heilemann shutters:
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* [[Riken Adler]], some variants
  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
 
* ''The Japanese camera'' by John Baird, ed. HCP
 
* ''The Japanese camera'' by John Baird, ed. HCP
 
== Links ==
 
* [http://www.geocities.jp/yume_camera/princeflex.html The Princeflex at yume_camera]
 
  
 
[[Category: Camera makers]]
 
[[Category: Camera makers]]
 
[[Category: Shutter makers]]
 
[[Category: Shutter makers]]
 
[[Category: Japan]]
 
[[Category: Japan]]

Revision as of 16:31, 4 April 2006

Neumann & Heilemann was a company founded in the 1930s by Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, two Germans living in Japan. They had previously helped Kazuo Tashima to found the Nichi-Doku company that would become Minolta. They made the Rulex shutters and they also made cameras. Their logo was NH inside a circle.

There is sporadic reference to the following models:

  • Condor
  • Perfekt ? (maybe a mistake, some shutters were named Perfekt)
  • Prince ?
  • Princeflex, the first Japanese TLR

Cameras equipped with Neumann & Heilemann shutters:

Bibliography

  • The Japanese camera by John Baird, ed. HCP