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'''Rectus''' is the name of a shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. There are at least two variants, with B, 1&ndash;200 and B, 1&ndash;300 speeds. 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 a shutter called '''Ceres'''. The maker of the Ceres is confirmed by an advertisement dated September 1955.<REF> Advertisement published in the September 1950 issue of ''[[Asahi Camera]],'' reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, item 511. </REF> (Today there is a company called Fuji Seimitsu, but [http://www.fun.co.jp/ its website] says that it was founded in 1962.)
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The '''Rectus''' is a leaf shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. There are at least two variants, with B, 1&ndash;200 and B, 1&ndash;300 speeds. It is said that it was made by [[Fuji Seimitsu]], who also made the [[Ceres]] leaf shutter.<REF> Attribution of the Rectus to Fuji Seimitsu: [http://rd2h-ari.hp.infoseek.co.jp/PRINCE_J_PIC.htm this page at Japan Family Camera]. </REF> It seems that it was a copy of the [[Prontor II]].<REF> See [http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/forum/messages/4/4533.html?1116915303 this post in the Classic Camera Repair Forum]. </REF>
 
 
The following lists are incomplete. That a particular model is listed should not be taken to mean that all examples were fitted with the particular model of shutter.
 
  
 
== Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter ==
 
== Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter ==
 
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The following list is incomplete. That a particular model is listed should not be taken to mean that all examples were fitted with the Rectus.
 
* [[Condor (35mm)]] (Rectus-MX, B, 1&ndash;500)
 
* [[Condor (35mm)]] (Rectus-MX, B, 1&ndash;500)
 
* [[Elbow Flex]] (B, 1&ndash;300 reported)
 
* [[Elbow Flex]] (B, 1&ndash;300 reported)
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* [[Primoflex]]
 
* [[Primoflex]]
 
* [[Prince Junior]] (unsure, B, 1&ndash;300 reported)
 
* [[Prince Junior]] (unsure, B, 1&ndash;300 reported)
 
== Cameras equipped with a Ceres shutter ==
 
 
* [[Elbow Flex]] (B, 1&ndash;300)
 
* [[Prince Junior]] (B, 1&ndash;300)
 
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==

Revision as of 18:05, 26 March 2007

The Rectus is a leaf shutter found on some Japanese cameras from the 1950s. There are at least two variants, with B, 1–200 and B, 1–300 speeds. It is said that it was made by Fuji Seimitsu, who also made the Ceres leaf shutter.[1] It seems that it was a copy of the Prontor II.[2]

Cameras equipped with a Rectus shutter

The following list is incomplete. That a particular model is listed should not be taken to mean that all examples were fitted with the Rectus.

Notes

  1. Attribution of the Rectus to Fuji Seimitsu: this page at Japan Family Camera.
  2. See this post in the Classic Camera Repair Forum.

Bibliography