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'''Sumida''' is a Japanese camera maker that was active in the early 1950s. Its full name is '''Sumida Optical Works''' ('''K.K. Sumida Kōki Seisakusho''', 株式会社隅田光機製作所). Various Japanese websites tend to say that it is related to the prewar [[Proud]] company. | '''Sumida''' is a Japanese camera maker that was active in the early 1950s. Its full name is '''Sumida Optical Works''' ('''K.K. Sumida Kōki Seisakusho''', 株式会社隅田光機製作所). Various Japanese websites tend to say that it is related to the prewar [[Proud]] company. | ||
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Revision as of 22:51, 4 September 2006
Sumida is a Japanese camera maker that was active in the early 1950s. Its full name is Sumida Optical Works (K.K. Sumida Kōki Seisakusho, 株式会社隅田光機製作所). Various Japanese websites tend to say that it is related to the prewar Proud company.
"Sumida" is the name of a river in Tokyo, and also of one of the 23 boroughs (区, ku, conventionally if misleadingly translated as "wards") of Tokyo.
4.5×6 folding
- Apollo II
- Mikado Semi
- Semi Proud
- Million Proud
- Million Proud II
- Million Proud (new)
- Proud Model 50
McKeown also lists the Mikado under Nishida, but a picture of the back shows a plate marked SUMIDA OPTICAL WORKS. The Asahi anthology similarly describes the Apollo II as from both Sumida and Nishida.
6×6 folding
- Proud Chrome Six
- Proud Chrome Six II
- Proud Chrome Six III
- Proud Chrome Six IIIA
- Proud Super Six
