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===Medium format=== | ===Medium format=== | ||
| + | ====75mm f3.5 Kominar (3 elements, 3 groups)==== | ||
| + | *[[Walzflex]] IIA, IIIA, IIIC | ||
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| + | ====75mm f3.5 S-Kominar (4 elements, 3 groups)==== | ||
*[[Mine Six]] (first model) | *[[Mine Six]] (first model) | ||
*[[Mine Six|Mine Six IIF]] | *[[Mine Six|Mine Six IIF]] | ||
| − | *[[Walcon]] | + | *[[Walzflex]] IIB, IIIB |
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| + | ====75mm f3.5 Kominar==== | ||
| + | <!-- Probably all 3/3, but not yet known/checked --> | ||
| + | *[[Walcon]] (Semi) | ||
| + | *[[Walcon 6]] | ||
*[[Walzflex|Wagoflex]] | *[[Walzflex|Wagoflex]] | ||
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===35mm=== | ===35mm=== | ||
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*[http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~Tplan/camera/mepro.html Meprozenit] a Soviet camera with a Japanese lens (text in Japanese) | *[http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~Tplan/camera/mepro.html Meprozenit] a Soviet camera with a Japanese lens (text in Japanese) | ||
* [http://blog.livedoor.jp/united3arrows/archives/cat_911880.html Japanese postwar ads, mostly from 1954], including [http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/united3arrows/imgs/b/2/b27b8bcf.jpg an ad for the Kominar 7.5cm/3.5 and 4.5cm/4.5] | * [http://blog.livedoor.jp/united3arrows/archives/cat_911880.html Japanese postwar ads, mostly from 1954], including [http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/united3arrows/imgs/b/2/b27b8bcf.jpg an ad for the Kominar 7.5cm/3.5 and 4.5cm/4.5] | ||
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| + | ==Reference / 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 | ||
[[Category:Lens makers]] | [[Category:Lens makers]] | ||
[[Category:Japan]] | [[Category:Japan]] | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 28 May 2006
Nitto Kogaku (日東光学株式会社, Nittō Kōgaku) is a Japanese optical company that still (2006) exists, now spelling its name "Nittoh". It was founded in 1943 as Nittō Kōgaku Kikai Seisakusho (日東光学機械製作所), and became Nittō Kōgaku K.K. (日東光学株式会社) in 1951. In 1950, it started to produce the "Kominar" (コミナー) lenses used in a variety of cameras, as well as enlarging lenses. It also made cameras as a subcontractor for other companies, beginning with the Fujipet in 1960. Examples included the Olympus Trip 35, the Revue 400 EF and so on.
Contents
Cameras with Nitto lenses
These lists are incomplete.
That a particular model is listed here should not be taken to mean that all examples were fitted with Nitto lenses.
Medium format
75mm f3.5 Kominar (3 elements, 3 groups)
- Walzflex IIA, IIIA, IIIC
75mm f3.5 S-Kominar (4 elements, 3 groups)
- Mine Six (first model)
- Mine Six IIF
- Walzflex IIB, IIIB
75mm f3.5 Kominar
35mm
- Meprozenit
- Walz Electric
- Walz Envoy 35
- Walz Wide
Links
In English:
- Walz Walzflex semi-automatic Matt Denton praises the Kominar lens
In Japanese:
- Nittoh Kogaku's site, containing the following pages:
- A brief chronology of the company
- A short history of the Kominar lenses
- Kominar lens advertisements. Unfortunately they are reproduced so small as to be virtually indecipherable.
- Kominar-E enlarging lens (text in Japanese)
- Meprozenit a Soviet camera with a Japanese lens (text in Japanese)
- Japanese postwar ads, mostly from 1954, including an ad for the Kominar 7.5cm/3.5 and 4.5cm/4.5
Reference / 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
