Nittō Kōgaku

Nitto Kogaku (日東光学株式会社, Nittō Kōgaku) is a Japanese optical company that in the 1950s produced "Kominar" (コミナー) lenses used in a variety of cameras, as well as enlarging lenses.

The company still (2006) exists, now spelling its name "Nittoh".

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

• Mine Six (first model)
• Mine Six IIF
• Walcon
• Wagoflex
• Walzflex

35mm

• Meprozenit
• Walz Electric
• Walz Envoy 35
• Walz Wide

Links

• Nittoh Kogaku's site (in Japanese)
• Walz Walzflex semi-automatic Matt Denton praises the Kominar lens
• Kominar-E enlarging lens (text in Japanese)
• Meprozenit a Soviet camera with a Japanese lens (text in Japanese)
• Kominar lenses at Nittoh's site. A short history (in Japanese).
• Kominar lens advertisements at Nittoh's site. The advertisements are in Japanese, and unfortunately are reproduced so small as to be virtually indecipherable.
• Japanese postwar ads, mostly from 1954, including an ad for the Kominar 7.5cm/3.5 and 4.5cm/4.5