Shinko Super
The Shinko Super is a Japanese 6×6cm viewfinder camera with a focal plane shutter, advertised in 1942 by Yamashita Shōten.[1] It is only known from an advertisement for the Shinko Super I (シンコースーパーⅠ型) dated February 1942 and reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi.[2]
Description
The Shinko Super has a metal body with rounded edges. It looks somewhat like the Ricohl 3×4cm camera. The top housing contains an eye-level finder offset to the left. The advance knob is at the top left. It seems that there is a flush accessory shoe in the middle of the top plate. The speed selecting knob is offset to the right and a button is visible further to the right, certainly the shutter release. The focal plane shutter gives B, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200 speeds, and the lens is a collapsible Shinko Anastigmat 80/3.5.
No surviving example has been observed so far, but there is a record of an online auction for a Shinko Super I with body n°304 and lens n°311.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Date: advertisements listed in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 337.
- ↑ Advertisement published in Shashin Bunka, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 74.
- ↑ Extract of a Marktplaats auction found in Google's cache.
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 122.
This camera is not listed in Sugiyama.
