Seikosha (shutter)

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The Seikosha is a Japanese leaf shutter in #0 size. It was developed in 1932 by the Japanese Seikosha company, inspired by the German Compur.[1] It is sometimes called "Seikosha S", apparently because it is equipped with a self-timer and by analogy with the Compur-S. In an advertisement for the Lord by Tōkyō Kōgaku[2] it is called S Seiko (Sセイコー).

Variants and cameras equipped (incomplete list, and not all variants are concerned):

Notes

  1. Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten, p. 
  2. Advertisement published in the March 1938 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 105.

Bibliography

  • Kamera no mekanizumu sono I: "Hai! Chīzu" Shunkan o torae-tsuzukeru shattā-ten (カメラのメカニズム・そのⅠ・「ハイ!チーズ」瞬間をとらえ続けるシャッター展, Camera mechanism, part 1 "Cheese!" Exhibition of instant taking shutters). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 2002. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number)