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==Sources / further reading==
 
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*{{Showa10}} Pp. 135, 534.
 
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*Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Mine Shikkusu: Gunma-ken Takasaki-shi no kameramēkā" (ミネシックス:群馬県高崎市のカメラメーカー, Mine Six: A camera-maker in Takasaki, Gunma). Chapter 7 of {{Zunow10}} This history of Takane is based on Hagiya's interviews with four people who had been key figures in the company.
*Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Mine Shikkusu: Gunma-ken Takasaki-shi no kameramēkā" (ミネシックス:群馬県高崎市のカメラメーカー, Mine Six: A camera-maker in Takasaki, Gunma). Chapter 7 of ''Zunō kamera tanjō: Sengo kokusan kamera jū monogatari'' (ズノーカメラ誕生:戦後国産カメラ10物語, The birth of the Zunow camera: Ten stories of postwar Japanese camera makers). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1999. ISBN 4-257-12023-1 In Japanese only. First published in issue 27 (December 1993) of ''Kamera rebyū: Kurashikku kamera senka'' (カメラレビュー・クラシックカメラ専科), this history of Takane is based on Hagiya's interviews with four people who had been key figures in the company.
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

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The Sisley (シスレー, shisurē) 55, released around May 1954, was the first product of the newly renamed Takane Kōgaku, whose previous cameras had been the Daido Six and Semi. It added a non-coupled rangefinder to the Daido Six, a folder whose body was based on that for the Mihama Six. It had two windows for film numbers (for 6×6 or 6×4.5). Like all its successors, the Sisley 55 came with a 75mm f3.5 lens; this one was named "Deep-C" and had front-cell focusing (calibrated in feet). The NKS shutter provided for speeds of 1–200 and B. It was advertised in the May 1954 issue of Asahi Camera for ¥12,500.

Many, perhaps all, of these cameras were engraved at the top "Sisley Model-1", with no mention of "55".

There was a name variant called Balm Six Model I (or Model-1?), same as the Sisley Model-1, but with a lens named Balm Anastigmat.

McKeown also mentions a "Sisley 2A" and a "Sisley 3A". In the pictures, they look very much like a Mine Six IIF and a Mine Six IIIS respectively, but with a Sisley engraving.

Takane's next camera would be the Mine Six.

Sources / further reading

In Japanese:

  • 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. Pp. 135, 534.
  • Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Mine Shikkusu: Gunma-ken Takasaki-shi no kameramēkā" (ミネシックス:群馬県高崎市のカメラメーカー, Mine Six: A camera-maker in Takasaki, Gunma). Chapter 7 of Zunō kamera tanjō: Sengo kokusan kamera jū monogatari (ズノーカメラ誕生:戦後国産カメラ10物語, The birth of the Zunow camera: Ten stories of postwar Japanese camera makers). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1999. ISBN 4-257-12023-1. This history of Takane is based on Hagiya's interviews with four people who had been key figures in the company.

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