Nishida
Nishida is a Japanese camera maker that was active from at least 1941. Its full name was Nishida Kōgaku Kikai Seisakusho[1] (西田光学器械製作所) and later Nishida Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (西田光学工業株式会社). This Japanese page says that it was the maker of the NKK shutters.
The name "Nishida" consists of two parts: nishi, meaning "west"; and ta, whose pronunciation many Japanese people find distinguishable from the "ter" sound of English "after". Thus the name "Wester" for Nishida's products: "west" from nishi, and "ter" from ta.
Nishida Kōgaku went bankrupt in January 1958.
Contents
Nishida cameras
120 film
6×6 folders
4.5×6 folders
McKeown lists the Mikado Semi 4.5×6 folding camera under both Nishida and Sumida, but a page of the AJCC attributes it to the latter, and a picture of the back of a Mikado shows a plate marked SUMIDA OPTICAL WORKS. The Asahi Camera collection similarly describes the Apollo II as by both Nishida and Sumida.
35mm film
- Auto West
Other cameras with lenses by Nishida
References / further reading
- 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.
- Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). (Source for bankruptcy.)
