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| − | The '''Semi Lester''' (セミレスター) is a [[Japanese 4.5×6 folders|Japanese 4.5×6 folding camera]], made by the company [[Condor Camera|Motodori Shashin Kikai Kōgyō-sho]] in 1937.<REF> Date: {{Kokusan}}, p. 343. It is attributed by {{McKeown}}, p. 701, to Motojima Camera Works, certainly because of a confusion between 本鳥 (Motodori) with 本島 (Motoshima). </REF> It was succeeded at the end of the year by the nearly identical [[Victor folders|Victor]]. | + | The '''Semi Lester''' (セミレスター) is a [[Japanese 4.5 |
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| − | == Description ==
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| − | The Semi Lester is a [[Baldax]] copy, with the front leather embossed ''Lester'' in handwritten style. When held vertically by the photographer, the advance knob is at the top right and the folding optical finder is at the center left. There is no body release. Film advance is controlled by two red windows in the back, protected by a common sliding cover.
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| − | == Evolution ==
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| − | The Semi Lester is advertised in the April 1937 issue of ''[[Camera Club]]''<REF> Advertisement reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p. 104. </REF> in four variants, all of them equipped with a version of the [[Rulex]] shutter by [[Neumann & Heilemann]]:
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| − | * Lester Anastigmat f:4.5 lens and Rulex B shutter ({{yen|55|1937}});
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| − | * Lester Anastigmat f:4.5 lens and Rulex A shutter ({{yen|60|1937}});
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| − | * Lester Anastigmat f:3.5 lens and Rulex B shutter ({{yen|70|1937}});
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| − | * Lester Anastigmat f:3.5 lens and Rulex A shutter ({{yen|75|1937}}).
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| − | In other advertisements dated April 1937<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki11.jpg Advertisement] published in the April 21, 1937 issue of ''[[Asahi Graph]],'' reproduced in the [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki-b.htm 120 film camera page] of the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF> and July 1937,<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/R4.jpg Advertisement] published in the July 25, 1937 issue of ''[[Sunday Mainichi]],'' reproduced in the [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki-b.htm 120 film camera page] of the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF> the following variant is added, sometimes called '''popular edition''' (大衆版):
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| − | * Lester Anastigmat f:4.5 lens and Rulex D shutter ({{yen|48|1937}}).
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| − | It is also reported that a variant with a Radionar f:3.5 lens and Rulex A shutter appears in the May 1937 issue of ''Asahi Camera'', and that a variant with a Lester f:2.9 lens appears in the June issue of the same magazine.<REF> {{Kokusan}}, p. 343. </REF>
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| − | == Notes ==
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| − | == Bibliography ==
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| − | * {{Showa10}} Item 318. (See also the advertisement for the item 164.)
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| − | * {{McKeown12}} P. 701.
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| − | * {{Zukan}} Item 1161.
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| − | == Links ==
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| − | * Advertisements reproduced in the [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki-b.htm 120 film camera page] of the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]:
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| − | ** [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki11.jpg Advertisement for the Semi Lester] published in the April 21, 1937 issue of ''[[Asahi Graph]]''
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| − | ** [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/R4.jpg Advertisement for the Semi Lester] published in the July 25, 1937 issue of ''[[Sunday Mainichi]]''
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| − | [[Category: Japanese 4.5x6 viewfinder folding|Lester, Semi]]
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| − | [[Category: L|Lester, Semi]]
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