Prince plate folders

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Template:Japanese large format The Prince is a Japanese 6.5×9 folding camera taking film plates. Its name might indicate that it was made by Prince Camera Works, if the latter was indeed a camera maker.

The picture shows a regular plate folder, with a metal body, a small focusing wheel on the right of the bed and a focusing scale on the left. There is a swivelling brilliant finder attached to the lens standard and a folding frame finder, with a black rear frame hinged to the body and a metal front frame hinged to the lens standard. There does not seem to be any movement ability, and no nameplate is visible.

Here are the known lens and shutter combinations:

Notes

  1. Example pictured in McKeown, p. 331.
  2. Example observed in a Yahoo Japan auction.

Bibliography

The Prince is not listed in Kokusan kamera no rekishi (perhaps because it is older than 1935) nor in Sugiyama.