Oriental
Oriental Shashin Kōgyō K.K. (オリエンタル写真工業株式会社, translated by Oriental Photo Industrial Corporation) was a Japanese film maker founded in 1919. It used the Orient, Peacock and OK trademarks.[1] It used an OPIC logo (presumably for Oriental Photo Industrial Corporation) from 1937, and perhaps made large format cameras.[2] It also published a photographic magazine, Photo-Times.
In 1944 the company Tōyō Kōki (that made the Peacock cameras from 1939) was merged into Oriental, becoming its optical instruments branch (光機部門), that was dissolved in 1945.[3] The two companies were perhaps already related at an earlier date, as indicated by the common use of the Peacock trademark.
The company became Cyber Graphics at an unknown date and still (2007) exists under that name.
Notes
- ↑ Lewis, p. 30.
- ↑ See this page at Kan's Room.
- ↑ See this page at Kan's Room. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 339, also says that the two companies are related.
Bibliography
- 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). P. 30.
Links
- Official website of Cyber Graphics
- Oriental large format camera at Kan's Room, reproducing an e-mail sent from an employee of Cyber Graphics about the history of the company
