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.

Description

A folding plate camera, apparently in 6.5×9cm format, has been observed with a plate holder sporting the Proud logo. The camera is likely to be a Proud plate folder but this is not certain. This example 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 and a folding frame finder made of two parts: an eyepiece attached to the rear and a wireframe attached to the front standard. There is a small focusing wheel on the right of the bed and a focusing scale on the left. A handle and the folding bed release are placed above the body. The metal body also shows some similarity to the Rosen Hand, to which it is perhaps related.

Lens and shutter equipment

Other than the Corygon and Rulex of the example mentioned above, the following combinations are reported:

Notes

  1. Lewis, pp. 46–7.
  2. Lenses, shutters and prices: Lewis, pp. 46–7. This source says Verio instead of Vario, probably by mistake, and Lauser instead of Lausar on two occasions, probably a mistake too.

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.

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