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The name '''Prince''' appears on various Japanese cameras:
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* cameras attributed to [[Fujimoto]] by McKeown:
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The name '''Prince''' designates one of the following:
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** [[Semi Prince]], 4.5x6 folding (1934 onwards), mentioned by [[Fujimoto]] on their web page, distributed by Fukada Shōokai, also sold by Fujimoto under their own brand as the Semi Lucky
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* Prince products sold before 1945 by the Japanese distributor [[Fukada|Fukada Shōkai]], in association with the trademark "Prince Camera Works" (プリンスカメラウアークス, ''Purinsu Kamera Uākusu'') and a ''PCW'' logo:
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** [[Prince Peerless]], maker dubious
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** [[Prince plate folders|Prince]] 6.5×9 plate folder
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** [[Prince Flex]], probably made by [[Neumann & Heilemann]], also distributed by Fukada Shōkai
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** [[Prince Peerless]] 6.5×9 plate folder
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** Prince, 6.5x9 folding plate camera (only in McKeown)
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** [[Semi Prince]] 4.5×6 folder
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** Pocket Prince, 4x6.5 folding (only in McKeown)
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** [[Prince Flex]] 6×6 TLR
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* cameras by a company called Prince Camera Works:
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** [[Pocket Prince]] 4×6.5 folder
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** Baby Doris, 3x4 folding
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** [[Japanese 3×4 and 4×4 pseudo TLR|Prince Baby Ref]] 3×4 pseudo TLR
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** Prince Baby Ref, fixed focus pseudo TLR, perhaps the same camera as the [[Riken]] [[Chukon Ref]]
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** Prince auxiliary rangefinder
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* cameras by a company called Prince Camera Company:
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* [[Princeflex|Princeflex and Prince Junior]] 6×6 TLR, sold in the 1950s by the Japanese distributor [[Mima|Mima Shōkai]], again in association with the trademark "Prince Camera Works" (プリンスカメラワークス, ''Purinsu Kamera Wākusu'') and a ''PCW'' logo
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** [[Princeflex]], model I and II
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* Prince [[Hit]]-type subminiature
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** [[Prince Junior]]
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* [[Toyoca Ace|Prince Ruby]], name variant of the [[Toyoca Ace]]
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* [[Prince 16-A]], subminiature camera taking 17.5mm film
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Here is a possible theory:
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* L. M. Prince & Bro., a US camera maker of the late XIXth century
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* around the mid 1930s the Prince name was used by a distributor named Fukada Shōkai, who sold cameras made by various other companies, such as [[Neumann & Heilemann]] for the [[Prince Flex]] or [[Fujimoto]] for the [[Semi Prince]]
 
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* at the end of the 1930s a company named Prince Camera Works (related or not to Fukada) probably existed and probably made some cameras named [[Doris]] (name cited again in McKeown under the Tokyo Seiki entry for 1950s cameras), and maybe some of the [[Semi Prince]]
 
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* (McKeown again lists [[Doris]] cameras in the 1950s under the entry "Tokyo Seiki")
 
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* after the war a company named Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku (東洋精機光学) reused the names Prince and [[Doris]]; among them the [[Princeflex]] was sometimes attributed to a Prince Camera (プリンスカメラ) company and the [[Dorisflex]] to a Doris Camera (ドリスカメラ) company
 
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== Links ==
 
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* Discussion about Prince on [http://www.tlr-cameras.com/Japanese/index.html this page at tlr-cameras.com]
 
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[[Category: Camera makers]]
 
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[[Category: Japan]]
 

Latest revision as of 17:06, 4 November 2008

Disambiguation Page

The name Prince designates one of the following:

  • Prince products sold before 1945 by the Japanese distributor Fukada Shōkai, in association with the trademark "Prince Camera Works" (プリンスカメラウアークス, Purinsu Kamera Uākusu) and a PCW logo:
  • Princeflex and Prince Junior 6×6 TLR, sold in the 1950s by the Japanese distributor Mima Shōkai, again in association with the trademark "Prince Camera Works" (プリンスカメラワークス, Purinsu Kamera Wākusu) and a PCW logo
  • Prince Hit-type subminiature
  • Prince Ruby, name variant of the Toyoca Ace
  • Prince 16-A, subminiature camera taking 17.5mm film
  • L. M. Prince & Bro., a US camera maker of the late XIXth century
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