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The '''Nicca Camera Co. Ltd.''' started as the optical workshop ''Kogaku Seiki'' founded by former '''[[Canon]]'''-employees in the 1930's. In their last years they cooperated with [[Yashica]]. Later the name Nicca seems to have been used as brand name by someone else for cheap cameras, may be by Yashica.
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The '''Nicca Camera Co. Ltd.''' started as the optical workshop ''Kogaku Seiki'', founded by former employees of '''[[Canon]]''' in the 1930s. In its last years it cooperated with [[Yashica]], which bought it. Later the name Nicca seems to have been used as brand name by someone else for cheap cameras, may be by Yashica.
  
 
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* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/iannorris/leica_copies/leica_copies_n/histnicca.htm history]
 
* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/iannorris/leica_copies/leica_copies_n/histnicca.htm history]
* [http://www.cameraquest.com/nicproto.htm somewhat mysterious ;-)]
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* [http://www.cameraquest.com/nicproto.htm an unmarked camera] that's based on a Nicca or Yashica
 
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Revision as of 08:53, 15 May 2006

The Nicca Camera Co. Ltd. started as the optical workshop Kogaku Seiki, founded by former employees of Canon in the 1930s. In its last years it cooperated with Yashica, which bought it. Later the name Nicca seems to have been used as brand name by someone else for cheap cameras, may be by Yashica.

cameras

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Leica copies

  • Tower Type 3 (Leica III-copy for Sears & Roebuck, 1949)
  • Nicca IIIB (Leica III-copy, 1951)
  • Nicca IIIS (Leica III-copy, 1952)
  • Nicca Type MS
  • Nicca Type 4
  • Nicca Type 5
  • Yashica YF Nicca (Leica M3-copy)

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