Seica and Andes Four
The Riken Seica was a 4x4cm format camera. The Seica 60/4.5 triplet lens and the T-B-25-50-100-250 shutter were mounted on a telescopic tube. It had a tubular optical finder and an accessory shoe. At the time, the rollfilm paperback was not marked for 4x4 pictures, so the film advance was not by red window but there was an exposure counter with the same mechanism as on the Adler IV. Film loading was by the bottom plate.
Note: Seica means "bloom" or "flower" in the figurate sense of "elite". It is written 精華 (modern transcription would be Seika). During the war period, Riken used "patriotic" names, as well as names reminding Japan's alliance with Germany.
All the data on this page comes from Ricoh's corporate site, the only source of information that could be found about the Seica.
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