Shinko Super
The Shinko Super is a Japanese 6×6cm viewfinder camera with a focal plane shutter, advertised in 1942 by Yamashita Shōten and probably made by Shinkō Seiki (see below).[1]
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 four-element Shinko Anastigmat 80/3.5.[2]
Advertisements and original documents
The Shinko Super is not mentioned in the official list of set prices compiled in October 1940 and published in January 1941,[3] but it appears in a later official price list dated November 1941.[4] The camera was advertised as the Shinko Super I (シンコースーパーⅠ型) in the February 1942 issue of Shashin Bunka.[5] It is also mentioned in the "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943.[6] The maker's name is unfortunately missing from the document, but the maker of the lens is mentioned as Shinkō, the same company which made the Shinko Baby and certainly Shinkoflex.[7] The focal-plane shutter was probably shared with the latter camera.
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.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Date: advertisements listed in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 337.
- ↑ Four elements: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item M3.
- ↑ Template:Kakaku1940 short.
- ↑ "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō", November 1941, type 3, section 10.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 74.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), item 100.
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens item M3.
- ↑ 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.
- "Kamera no kōtei kakaku kanpō happyō" (カメラの公定価格官報発表, Official announcement of the set prices of the cameras), November 1941. Extract of a table listing Japanese camera production and setting the retail prices, reproduced in "Bebī Semi Fāsuto 'Kore ha bebī wo nanotta semi-ki da'" (ベビーセミファースト"これはベビーを名乗ったセミ機だ", Baby Semi First, 'this is a Semi camera called Baby'), an article by Furukawa Yasuo (古川保男) in Camera Collectors' News no. 277 (July 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. P. 27. Type 3, section 10.
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7. Item 100.
- Template:Kakaku1940 The Shinko Super does not appear in this list.
This camera is not listed in Sugiyama.