Oriental
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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. It reportedly made field cameras in the 1920s.[3]
It is said that the company Tōyō Kōki, which made the Peacock cameras from 1939, was a subsidiary of Oriental.[4] It was merged into the main company in 1944, becoming its optical instruments branch (光機部門), dissolved in 1945.[5]
The company became Cyber Graphics at an unknown date and still (2007) exists under that name.
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| Advertisement for Oriental plates in Asahi Camera February 1930. (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Lewis, p.30.
- ↑ See this page at Kan's Room.
- ↑ Sugiyama, item 1014.
- ↑ Dependent of Oriental: Fujishima and Nakamura, p.161 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, say keiretsu kaisha (系列会社). See also Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.339.
- ↑ See this page at Kan's Room.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera. Advertisement by Oriental Shashin Kōgyō in February 1930 (p.A14).
- 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.
- Fujishima Kōichi (藤島広一), Nakamura Kin (中村欽). "Kurashikku kamera Q&A" (クラシックカメラQ&A, Classic camera questions and answers). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.10, September 1987. No ISBN number. Konishiroku kamera no rekishi (小西六カメラの歴史, special issue on Konishiroku). Pp.159–61.
- 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).
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5. Item 1014.
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
