Olympic Camera

The Olympic Camera Works were a camera maker in Japan. It made the sophisticated Olympic and Super Olympic bakelite viewfinder cameras, and it made the Olympic Enlarger and tripods. Its cameras were distributed by Asahi Bussan in the UK. In 1937 it was bought by Riken Kankōshi which renamed it to Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō (Asahi Optical Industries Co., Ltd.) and continued the Olympic series, and even released new Olympics like the Semi Olympic. In 1938 the Riken group gave itself the new name Riken Kōgaku Kōgyō, and after 1938 neither the company name "Olympic Camera Works" nor the company name "Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō" was continued.