Neumann & Heilemann
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 Nichi-Doku company (that would later become Minolta), before founding their own company. Its logo was NH inside a circle. It made the Rulex and Perfekt shutters as well as cameras and lenses. Neumann & Heilemann made the first Japanese TLR in 1937, called the Prince Flex and distributed by Fukada Shōkai. (It is often attributed to Fujimoto, certainly because there is a confusion around the Prince name.)
Cameras
4.5×6 folder
According to McKeown, Neumann & Heilemann made a Condor 4.5×6 folder. However the same source also lists a New Semi Condor 4.5×6 vertical folding camera at the Nissan Kogaku entry. At a Yahoo Japan auction, a 4.5x6 folder with the name Condor embossed in the leather has been observed with a Koho 1-200-B-T shutter, a Delter (or Deller or Deltar?) Anastigmat 7.5cm f/3.5 lens and a case marked Semi Condor. It was obviously a copy of the Balda Baldax, certainly the smaller version for #00 shutter size, because the Koho shutter (#0 size) seemed oversized. It had what looks like a complicated linkage to a body release.
6×6 TLR
Shutters
- Rulex T-B-25-50-100-150
- Perfekt T-B-1-300
Cameras equipped with Neumann & Heilemann shutters:
- Riken Adler, some variants
- Fujimoto Semi Prince, some
- Proud Semi Proud, some
- Olympus Semi Olympus, some
Lenses
- Radionar 75/4.5, probably under license from Schneider, equipped some Fujimoto Semi Prince
- Tritar 105/4.5, camera unknown, shown here
Bibliography
- The Japanese camera by John Baird, ed. HCP
