Semi Chrome
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The Semi Chrome are Japanese 4.5×6 folders that were made by the company Optochrom.
The Semi Chrome A is a vertical folder, with a key to wind the film. It is unclear if the folding finder was an optical one or a simple frame finder. The only advertisement mentioned by Kokusan kamera no rekishi is dated February 1937[1], and no price is indicated. The lens is a New Gold Lausar[2] f:4.5, and the shutter has T, B, 5–150 speeds. The shutter is probably a Rulex: on the picture, the shutter plate is marked Semi Chrome at the top and RULEX at the bottom, with a logo at the right that is probably the NH logo of Neumann & Heilemann.
- ↑ Advertisement for the Baby Chrome, Baby Oso and Semi Chrome A and B, originally published in the February 1937 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi in two parts, items 34 and 89–91.
- ↑ Roman writing temptatively inferred from the katakana ニユーゴールドローザー.