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Neumann & Heilemann was a company founded in the 1930s by Billy Neumann and Willy Heilemann, two German people living in Japan. Billy Neumann had previously worked for Krauss in Paris, and Willy Heilemann for Kenngott, then they had helped Kazuo Tashima to found the Nichidoku company (that would later become Minolta), before founding their own company. Its logo was NH inside a circle. It made the Rulex and Perfect (or Perfekt) shutters as well as lenses and maybe cameras.
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Cameras
The company certainly participated in the development of the Prince Flex, the first Japanese TLR (1937), distributed by Fukada Shōkai. Some sources say that it was made by Neumann & Heilemann,[1] and the camera is indeed engraved with the company name. A dubious rumor says that Neumann & Heilemann merged with the Prince factory and that the Prince Flex was the first resulting product.[2] However the company continued to produce shutters under its own name at least until the war.
McKeown says that Neumann & Heilemann made a 4.5×6 folder called Condor.[3] This is probably a confusion with the Condor folders, most of them having a Rulex shutter made by the company.
Shutters
- Rulex (various versions)
- Perfect or Perfekt
Lenses
List of cameras equipped with a Neumann & Heilemann lens (this list is incomplete, and that a model appears in the list does not mean that all its variants are concerned):
Notes
- ↑ See this page at yume_camera.
- ↑ This is mentioned as a rumor in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 340, whereas Watakushi no ni-gan-refu kamera-ten, p. 28, says that Neumann & Heilemann merged with Fujimoto.
- ↑ McKeown, p. 717.
- ↑ Example pictured in this page at ksmt.com, and example pictured in Hibi, p. 65 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no. 8.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Baird, John R. The Japanese Camera. Yakima, WA: Historical Camera Publications, 1990. ISBN 1-879561-02-6.
- Hibi Takashi (日比孝). "Nihon no supuringu kamera: Orinpasu" (日本のスプリングカメラ・オリンパス, "Japanese folding cameras: 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.8, September 1986. No ISBN number. Supuringu kamera (スプリングカメラ, special issue on spring cameras). Pp. 62–5.
- McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).
- Watakushi no ni-gan-refu kamera-ten (私の二眼レフカメラ展, Exhibition of twin lens reflex cameras). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 1992. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number.) P. 25.
