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 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. It sold a plant in Mukogawa to Fujimoto in 1937,[1] and the Prince Flex was perhaps taken over by Fujimoto at the same time (see Prince Flex). (The Semi Lucky by Fujimoto would be produced in this Mukogawa plant.)[2]
The attribution of the Condor folders to Neumann & Heilemann is a mistake.[3]
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
- ↑ Tanimura, p. 51 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no. 11.
- ↑ Tanimura, p. 51 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no. 11.
- ↑ Mistake in McKeown, p. 717. Most Condor folders have a Rulex shutter made by the company.
- ↑ 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).
- Tanimura Yoshihiko (谷村吉彦). "Semi Purinsu kara Rakku made — Takahashi Kenzō shi ni kiku." (セミプリンスからラックまで・高橋健三氏にきく, "From the Semi Prince to the Luck — Asking Takahashi Kenzō") 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.11, March 1988. No ISBN number. Shirarezaru kamera (知られざるカメラ, special issue on unknown cameras). Pp. 50–1. Based on an interview of Takahashi Kenzō, senior advisor of Fujimoto.
- 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.
