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'''Rectus''' was the name of a shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. According to [http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/forum/messages/4/4533.html?1116915303 a post in the Classic Camera Repair Forum] it was a copy of the [[Prontor II]]. According to [http://rd2h-ari.hp.infoseek.co.jp/PRINCE_J_PIC.htm this page at Japan Family Camera], it was made by a company called Fuji Seimitsu (富士精密), together with the [[Ceres]] shutter.
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'''Rectus''' was the name of a shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. According to [http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/forum/messages/4/4533.html?1116915303 a post in the Classic Camera Repair Forum] it was a copy of the [[Prontor II]]. According to [http://rd2h-ari.hp.infoseek.co.jp/PRINCE_J_PIC.htm this page at Japan Family Camera], it was made by a company called Fuji Seimitsu (富士精密), together with the [[Ceres]] shutter. (Today there is a company called Fuji Seimitsu, but [http://www.fun.co.jp/ its website] says that it was founded in 1962.)
  
 
== Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter ==
 
== Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter ==

Revision as of 20:47, 29 May 2006

Rectus was the name of a shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. According to a post in the Classic Camera Repair Forum it was a copy of the Prontor II. According to this page at Japan Family Camera, it was made by a company called Fuji Seimitsu (富士精密), together with the Ceres shutter. (Today there is a company called Fuji Seimitsu, but its website says that it was founded in 1962.)

Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter

This list is incomplete. That a particular model is listed here should not be taken to mean that all examples were fitted with a Rectus shutter.