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 1920s, its manufacturing branch was called Tokyo Camera Works and used the "T.C.W." initials.
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)
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.[6] Of these, the Testar was a four-element lens,[7] whose name and optical formula were inspired by the Carl Zeiss Tessar.
The Testar f/4.5 and f/6.3 lenses were mounted on the Apollo 6.5×9cm plate folder, in 90mm and 105mm focal length,[8] and the Testar f/4.5 was also mounted on the Secrette Special detective camera. The Complanar f/4.5 lens was mounted on the Convex Reflex 6.5×9cm SLR.[9]
Notes
- ↑ Lewis, p.28.
- ↑ Lewis, p.36.
- ↑ Lewis, p.28.
- ↑ Lewis, p.44.
- ↑ Lewis, p.44. Date: this page at ksmt.com.
- ↑ Testar: advertisement in Ars Camera April 1924, reproduced in Yazawa, p.18 of Camera Collectors' News no.98: "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.
- ↑ Lens scheme visible in the advertisement reproduced in Morishita, p.70 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.22.
- ↑ 105mm focal length: advertisement in Ars Camera September 1924, reproduced in Yazawa, p.18 of Camera Collectors' News no.98. 90mm focal length: Testar 90/4.5 lens presented in Yazawa, pp.17–8 of the same magazine.
- ↑ Advertisement reproduced in Morishita, p.70 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.22.
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).
- 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.
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)
