Sumida

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
• Mikado
• Semi Proud
• Million Proud
• Million Proud II
• Million Proud (new)
• Proud Model 50

The Apollo and Mikado are attributed both to Sumida and Nishida.

6×6 folding

• Proud Chrome Six
• Proud Chrome Six II
• Proud Chrome Six III
• Proud Chrome Six IIIA
• Proud Super Six

Bibliography

• 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.
• McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). P. 907.

Links

• Proud Chrome Six II at cla_came
• Proud Chrome Six III at madam's site
• Proud Chrome Six at kosaka's site
• Proud Chrome Six III at clenssic
• Mikado Semi at the All Japan Classic Camera Club (the folding in the middle)
• Another picture of the Mikado Semi at the AJCC

Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 345, for the Apollo II; McKeown, pp. 737–8 and 907.