Sone
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 late 1920s, its manufacturing branch was called Tokyo Camera Works and used the "T.C.W." initials.
Contents
Camera list
- Adam (1918)
- Sweet, Alpha and Pony Sweet (1918)
- Speed Reflex (1919) made by Kuribayashi[2]
- Secrette (4×5cm, 1923)
- Secrette Special (4.5×6cm, 1923)
- Tokioscope[3]
- Lloyd[4]
- Apollo (1923)[5]
- Monarch (4.5×6cm)
Notes
Bibliography
- 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).
Links
In Japanese:
- Sweet in the Camera database of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology
- Apollo plate folder with T.C.W. Testar 105mm f/6.3 lens and Ibsor shutter, at ksmt.com (with a small addition about its origin)
