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* [[Proud plate folders|Proud]] (6.5×9cm, 1933–4) | * [[Proud plate folders|Proud]] (6.5×9cm, 1933–4) | ||
It is unclear whether the [[Rosen plate folder|Rosen]] 6.5×9cm model (c.1935) was made by Proud or not. | It is unclear whether the [[Rosen plate folder|Rosen]] 6.5×9cm model (c.1935) was made by Proud or not. | ||
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+ | * Proud roll holder (ロールホルダー), in three versions (A, B, C), sold at ¥5 from 1936<REF> Columns in {{ACA}} July 1936, p.249, and August 1936, p.377. </REF> | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
+ | * {{ACA}} July 1936. "Foto nōto" (フォトノート, Photo note). P.249. | ||
+ | * {{ACA}} August 1936. "Atarashii kikai to zairyō" (新しい機械と材料, New equipment and machinery). P.377. | ||
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* Inoue Mitsuo (井上光朗). "Shashin renzu no yoake. Renzu-ya Funsenki" (写真レンズの夜明け・レンズ屋奮戦記, Dawn of the photographic lens — Fierce war tales between lens shops). {{KKS014}} Pp.128–132. | * Inoue Mitsuo (井上光朗). "Shashin renzu no yoake. Renzu-ya Funsenki" (写真レンズの夜明け・レンズ屋奮戦記, Dawn of the photographic lens — Fierce war tales between lens shops). {{KKS014}} Pp.128–132. |
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Proud was a Japanese camera maker before World War II.
Contents
History
The company was simply called Proud-Sha (プラウド社, meaning Proud Company) and was based in Tokyo.[1] The logo was the word Proud in handwritten script, underlined by a loop coming from the initial letter "P".
The company was founded was Miyazaki Shizuma (宮崎静馬), son of the owner of a large camera shop in Suda.[2] Most of the cameras were copies of German folders, like the Zeh Goldi or the Balda Baldax, and the camera bodies were made by a sub-contracting factory.[3]
It was Miyazaki Shizuma who suggested to the company Takachiho (predecessor of Olympus), which had developed a camera lens, to venture into camera production, and the bodies of the original Semi Olympus were supplied by Proud.[4] Camera bodies were also supplied to Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō for the Adler Four 4×4cm camera.
Miyazaki Shizuma was also engaged in the lens maker Miyoshi Kōgaku, as the responsible of the commercial aspects.[5] This explains why Miyoshi became Proud's main lens supplier, displacing the German company Friedrich. It seems that Proud was gradually merged into Miyoshi, which finally took over the camera producing activity. The Semi Prux 4.5×6 horizontal folder (a copy of the Kodak Duo) was jointly advertised by the two companies in 1939–40. Miyoshi later continued the production of cameras with the Roavic (inspired by the Kodak Duo Series II) and the Alma Four.
The postwar Proud models made by Sumida Optical Works are certainly a continuation of the prewar Proud company. This company also revived the Roavic as the Apollo and Mikado (said to be made in cooperation with Nishida).
See Sumida for all postwar Proud cameras.
Camera list
127 film
- Baby Rosen (copy of the Zeh Goldi, 3×4cm, 1935–6)
- Rosen Four (copy of the Zeh Goldi, 4×4cm, 1936), the Adler Four is a name variant sold by Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō
120 film
- Semi Proud (Baldax copy, 4.5×6cm, 1935–8), the Semi Olympus is a variant with a Zuiko lens
- Super Semi Proud (rangefinder model, 4.5×6cm, announced in 1937, sold in 1938–9)
- Semi Proud II and III (Baldax copies, 4.5×6cm, 1938–40), called Semi Proud again after some time
- Semi Proud II (Ikonta copy, 4.5×6cm, 1941–2)
- Semi Prux (horizontal folder, 4.5×6cm, 1938–40, maybe in cooperation with Miyoshi Kōgaku)
It is unclear whether the Semi Rosen, Semi Rosen III and Semi Rosen U were made by Proud or not.
Film plate
- Proud (6.5×9cm, 1933–4)
It is unclear whether the Rosen 6.5×9cm model (c.1935) was made by Proud or not.
Other products
- Proud roll holder (ロールホルダー), in three versions (A, B, C), sold at ¥5 from 1936[6]
Announcement of the Proud roll holder and Sakura rollfilm holder in Asahi Camera July 1936. (Image rights) |
Columns on the Proud roll holder and Sakura rollfilm holder in Asahi Camera August 1936. (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Based in Tokyo: advertisement dated December 1936 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.104. McKeown, p.804, says that Proud was also called Rosen Camera Fabrik and K.S. Fabrik. The latter seems to be a confusion, see the corresponding page.
- ↑ Sakurai Eiichi, p.64 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.20.
- ↑ Made by a sub-contractor: Sakurai Eiichi, p.64 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.20.
- ↑ Sakurai Eiichi, p.64 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.20.
- ↑ Inoue, p.131 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.14.
- ↑ Columns in Asahi Camera July 1936, p.249, and August 1936, p.377.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera July 1936. "Foto nōto" (フォトノート, Photo note). P.249.
- Asahi Camera August 1936. "Atarashii kikai to zairyō" (新しい機械と材料, New equipment and machinery). P.377.
- 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.
- Inoue Mitsuo (井上光朗). "Shashin renzu no yoake. Renzu-ya Funsenki" (写真レンズの夜明け・レンズ屋奮戦記, Dawn of the photographic lens — Fierce war tales between lens shops). 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.14, October 1989. No ISBN number. Rikō kamera no subete (リコーカメラのすべて, special issue on Ricoh). Pp.128–132.
- McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).
- "Zadankai: Orinpasu no michi" (座談会・オリンパスの道, "Conversation: the way of Olympus"). Interview of Sakurai Eiichi (桜井栄一), Maitani Yoshihisa (米谷美久) and Kawazoe Mitsuo (河添光男), by Saeki Kakugorō (佐伯恪五郎). 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. 20, 25 March 1992. No ISBN number. Orinpasu no subete (オリンパスのすべて, special issue on Olympus). Pp.64–71.