Proud plate folders

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Template:Japanese large format The Proud or Proud DC is a Japanese 6.5×9cm folding plate camera introduced in 1933[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 has a Rulex shutter by Neumann & Heilemann giving 1–200, B, T speeds, and a Corygon 10.5cm f:4.5 lens. There is a brilliant finder, a folding frame finder and a small wheel for focusing at the right of the folding bed. The metal body also shows some similarity to the Rosen Hand, to which it is perhaps related.

The reported lens and shutter combinations are the following:

Notes

  1. Lewis, p. 46–7.
  2. Called Verio by Lewis, this is probably a mistake.
  3. "Lauser" spelling and attributon to Tomioka: Lewis, p. 46. Tomioka also made lenses called Lausar, so there is possibly a typo.
  4. Lenses, 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.