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'''Sone Shunsuidō''' (曽根春翠堂) was a Japanese camera maker and distributor, founded in 1902 and based in Tokyo, Kanda..<REF> Lewis, p.28. </REF> In the 1920s, its manufacturing branch was called Tokyo Camera Works and used the "T.C.W." initials.
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'''Sone Shunsuidō''' (曽根春翠堂) was a Japanese camera maker and distributor, founded in 1902 and based in Tokyo, Kanda.<REF> Lewis, p.28. The address in 1924 was Kanda Ogawamachi-dōri Nishikimachi (神田小川町通錦町). Source: Advertisement in ''[[Ars Camera]]'' November 1924. </REF> In the 1920s, the manufacturing branch was called Tokyo Camera Works and used the "T.C.W." initials.
  
 
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== Bibliography ==
 
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* ''[[Ars Camera]]''. Advertisement by Sone Shunsuidō in November 1924. No page number.
 
* {{Lewis}}
 
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* Morishita Hajime (森下肇). "Atomu-han kamera no subete" (アトム判カメラのすべて, All of Atom-size cameras). {{KKS022}} Pp.55–70.
 
* Morishita Hajime (森下肇). "Atomu-han kamera no subete" (アトム判カメラのすべて, All of Atom-size cameras). {{KKS022}} Pp.55–70.

Revision as of 22:25, 3 February 2008

Sone Shunsuidō (曽根春翠堂) was a Japanese camera maker and distributor, founded in 1902 and based in Tokyo, Kanda.[1] In the 1920s, the manufacturing branch was called Tokyo Camera Works and used the "T.C.W." initials.

Camera list

Testar, Complanar and Modelar lenses

Advertisements by Sone says that the Testar f/4.5 and f/6.3 and Complanar f/4.5 lenses were specially made for Tokyo Camera Works by a French company in Paris.[4] The Testar was advertised as a four-element lens,[5] but recent accounts say that the f/6.3 and f/6.8 versions are actually triplets.[6] The name Testar was obviously inspired by "Tessar"; it is said that Carl Zeiss protested, and the lens was renamed Modelar after some time.[7]

Testar f/4.5 and f/6.3 lenses were mounted on the Apollo 6.5×9cm plate folders, in 105mm and sometimes 90mm focal length. A Testar 50mm f/4.5 was also mounted on the Secrette Special detective camera. The following lens engravings are known:

  • TESTAR ANASTIGMAT – f4.5 F90 N°11517[8]
  • TESTAR ANASTIGMAT f6.8 F90 N°11690[9]
  • T C W PARIS – TESTAR f:6.3 F105 N°13025[10]
  • T C W PARIS TESTAR f:4.5 F50 N°13405[11]

Modelar f/4.5 and f/6.3 lenses were mounted on the Apollo and Lloyd.[12] One isolated Modelar 10.5cm f/6.3 lens is known on a Super plate folder, but this equipment is perhaps not original.[13] On this particular lens, the engraving reads Modelar Anastigmat 1:6,3 F=10,5cm T.C.Works N°35921, and the same markings are repeated on the back rim of the rear element.

The Complanar f/4.5 lens was mounted on the Convex Reflex 6.5×9cm SLR.[14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Lewis, p.28. The address in 1924 was Kanda Ogawamachi-dōri Nishikimachi (神田小川町通錦町). Source: Advertisement in Ars Camera November 1924.
  2. ↑ Lewis, p.36.
  3. ↑ Lewis, p.28.
  4. ↑ Testar: advertisements in Ars Camera April and May 1924, reproduced in Yazawa, p.18 of Camera Collectors' News no.98, p.13 of Camera Collectors' News no.171 and pp.15–6 of Camera Collectors' News no.264: "東京カメラウオークス佛國巴里レンズ工場にて新製のテスターレンズF四、五又はF六、三を装せる". Testar and Complanar: advertisement reproduced in Morishita, p.70 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.22.
  5. ↑ Lens scheme visible in the advertisement reproduced in Morishita, p.70 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.22.
  6. ↑ Triplets: see this page and this page at ksmt.com.
  7. ↑ Yazawa, p.17 of Camera Collectors' News no.98 and p.11 of Camera Collectors' News no.171, quoting books by Kitano Kimio.
  8. ↑ Lens pictured in Yazawa, p.17 of Camera Collectors' News no.98, and p.14 of Camera Collectors' News no.264, mounted in a dial-set Compur shutter on an Apollo.
  9. ↑ Lens pictured in this page at ksmt.com, mounted in a Pronto shutter on a No.2 Pearl (equipment probably not original).
  10. ↑ Lens pictured in this page at ksmt.com, mounted in an Ibsor shutter on an Apollo.
  11. ↑ Lens pictured in Yazawa, p.14 of Camera Collectors' News no.264, on a Secrette Special.
  12. ↑ Lewis, p.44, Yazawa, p.13 of Camera Collectors' News no.171.
  13. ↑ Lens pictured in Yazawa, p.12 of Camera Collectors' News no.171.
  14. ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Morishita, p.70 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.22.

Bibliography

  • Ars Camera. Advertisement by Sone Shunsuidō in November 1924. No page number.
  • Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard).
  • Morishita Hajime (森下肇). "Atomu-han kamera no subete" (アトム判カメラのすべて, All of Atom-size cameras). Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.22, September 1992. No ISBN number. Airesu no subete (アイレスのすべて, special issue on Aires). Pp.55–70.
  • Yazawa Seiichirō (矢沢征一郎). "Renzu no hanashi (17) Chinpin renzu Tesutā" (レンズの話[17]珍品レンズ・テスター, Lens story [17] A rare lens: the Testar). In Camera Collectors' News no.98 (August 1985). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.17–9.
  • Yazawa Seiichirō (矢沢征一郎). "Renzu no hanashi (88) Modelā" (レンズの話[88]モデラー, Lens story [88] The Modelar). In Camera Collectors' News no.171 (September 1991). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.11–3.
  • Yazawa Seiichirō (矢沢征一郎). "Renzu no hanashi (174) Tesutā" (レンズの話[17]珍品レンズ・テスター, Lens story [174] The Testar). In Camera Collectors' News no.264 (June 1999). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.11–6.

Links

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