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meishi (5.5×8cm) Eagle | Idea A | Idea B | Idea Snap | Idea No.1 | Iris | Lily (horizontal) | Pearl No.3 | Special Camera | Venis | X
daimeishi (6.5×9cm) Apollo | Arcadia | Crite | Special East | Eaton | Elliotte | First | First Etui | Gold | Happy | Hope | Idea No.1 | Idea (metal) | Kinka | Kokka | Lily (horizontal) | Lily (metal) | Tropical Lily | Lloyd | Lomax | Masnette | Mikuni | Need | Nifca Klapp | Nifca Sport | Ohca | Palma | Peter | Prince | Prince Peerless | Proud | Romax | Rosen | Rubies | Sirius | Sun | Super | Tokiwa | Venus | Weha Idea | Weha Light
tefuda (8×10.5cm) Eagle | Idea A | Idea B | Idea No.1 | Idea (metal) | Iris | Lily (original) | Lily (horizontal) | Lily (metal) | Palma | Pearl No.3, No.4 | Minimum Pearl | Special Pearl | Sakura Palace | Sakura Pocket Prano | Star | Tokiwa | Weha
nimaigake (8×12cm) Eagle | Idea | Idea Binocular | Sakura Prano | Sakura Binocular Prano | Star Premo
hagaki (8×14cm) Eagle | Noble | Pearl No.3, No.4 | Star
kabine (12×16.5cm) Idea | Noble | Sakura Prano | Star Premo
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The Rosen Hand or Rosen Hand Camera is a Japanese 6.5×9cm folding plate camera, attributed to the company Proud and advertised in 1935.[1]

General description

The Rosen Hand has a metal body. There is a small focusing wheel on the photographer's right, with a lever actuating as a focus lock, and a distance scale on the left. The U-shaped front standard has an angled section. There is a brilliant finder offset to the left and a wireframe finder. The folding bed release and the leather handle are above the body. It seems that the name ROSEN is embossed in the leather of the folding bed.

Versions

The Rosen Hand was reportedly advertised in the November 1935 issue of Asahi Camera.[2]

One example is pictured in Sugiyama with a Corygon-Anastigmat 10.5cm f/4.5 lens by Friedrich, a Vario shutter giving 25, 50, 100, B, T speeds set by an index at the top, and no visible movement ability.[3]

Another example has been observed with a Corygon-Anastigmat 10.5cm f/4.5 lens, a Compur shutter (T, B, 1–250) and a thicker lens standard allowing at least vertical movements.[4]

Notes

  1. Attribution to Proud: Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.343, Sugiyama, item 1240 and McKeown, p.804.
  2. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.343.
  3. Sugiyama, item 1240. A smaller version of the same picture is reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.343.
  4. Example observed in an online auction.

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