Proud plate folders

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The Proud or Proud DC is a Japanese 6.5×9cm folding plate camera[1], certainly made by the Proud company.

A folding plate camera, apparently in 6.5×9cm format, has been observed with a plate holder sporting the Proud logo, that maybe identifies it as a Proud plate folder. It had a Rulex shutter by Neumann & Heilemann giving 1–200, B, T speeds, and a Corygon 10.5cm f:4.5 lens. There was a brilliant finder, a folding frame finder and a small wheel for focusing at the right of the folding bed.

The lens and shutter combinations mentioned in the literature are the following:

Notes

  1. ↑ Lewis, p. 46–7.
  2. ↑ Called Verio by Lewis, this is probably a mistake.
  3. ↑ Attributon to Tomioka: Lewis, p. 46.
  4. ↑ Lens, shutters and prices: Lewis, p. 46–7.

Bibliography

  • 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). Pp. 46–7.
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