Rosen plate folder
Template:Japanese large format 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] It has a brilliant finder and a folding frame finder, and the metal body shows some similarity to the Proud plate folder, to which it is perhaps related.
One example is pictured in Sugiyama and Kokusan kamera no rekishi with a Corygon-Anastigmat 10.5cm f/4.5 lens, a Vario shutter giving 25, 50, 100, B, T speeds and no movement ability.[2]
A 6.5×9 plate folder presented as a Rosen has been sold in a Yahoo Japan auction. It is mostly similar to the Rosen mentioned above and it has a Corygon-Anastigmat 10.5cm f/4.5 lens by Friedrich, but the shutter is a Compur giving T, B, 1–250 speeds and the U-shaped lens standard is different and allows vertical movements.
Notes
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 343, Sugiyama, p. 34 and McKeown, p. 804. Kokusan kamera no rekishi mentions one advertisement dated 1935, and the other sources give the same date.
- ↑ Sugiyama item 1240. A smaller version of the same picture is reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 343.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7. Item 325.
- McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). P. 804.
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5. Item 1240.
