Otagi Michifusa
Otagi Michifusa (愛宕通英)[1] was a Japanese camera designer. He was born in 1901, studied at the Tokyo University and worked from 1926 to 1933 as an engineer in the Naval Aviation headquarters.[2] He entered the company Tōkyō Kōgaku (the future maker of the Topcon cameras) in 1933 and designed the Minion, Minion 35 and Primoflex.[3] He also designed the Mascot subminiature,[4] made by Shimura on behalf of Tōkyō Kōgaku. In 1952, he left the company and founded the Ginyū Optical Laboratory (銀友光機研究所, Ginyū Kōki Kenkyūsho).[5] He edited the Kamera Nenkan annual supplements of Nippon Camera.[6] He died in 1974.
Notes
- ↑ The name is given in the Japanese order, with family name followed by the given name.
- ↑ Fujishima, p.89 and this biographical notice in the Nippon Camera website.
- ↑ Fujishima, p.89.
- ↑ Column in Photo Art January 1951, p.40.
- ↑ Biographical notice in the Nippon Camera website.
- ↑ Biographical notice in the Nippon Camera website.
Bibliography
- Fujishima Kōichi (藤島広一). "Meiki no sekkeisha" (名機の設計者, Designers of famous cameras). 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.4, March 1984. No ISBN number. Meiki no keifu (名機の系譜, special issue on famous camera families). Pp.86–90.
- Photo Art no.20, January 1951. "Kokusan kamera no kentō" (国産カメラの検討, Inquiry on Japanese cameras). Pp.36–40.
Links
- Extract of Kamera to renzu no jiten (カメラとレンズの事典, Dictionary of cameras and lenses) written by Otagi Michifusa, reproduced in the website of the magazine Nippon Camera with a short biographical notice (web archive version, January 18, 2006, the character encoding is Shift_JIS)
