Super Flex Baby
Template:127 Japan The Super Flex Baby was a 4x4 SLR made in Japan from 1938. It was sold and advertised by a company called Kiko-Do, but it was manufactured by Umemoto Seisakusho, as we can learn from today's Umemoto website.
The Super Flex Baby looked like the Karma Flex. It had a behind the lens shutter, and there were some variants. Two ads from 1942 (in the 3/1942 issue of Hōdō Shashin, 報道写真, published on this page, and in another magazine, published on this page) announced the following:
- Super Flex Baby II with Super Anastigmat 7cm f/4.5 and T-B-25-50-100 shutter, for 90 yen
- Super Flex Baby IIIA with Super Anastigmat 6.5cm f/3.2 lens, for 102 yen
The case cost 9.25 yen.
Some people call it "Baby Super Flex", it is not the word order that appears on the camera nor on the ads. However in one of the ads the case is advertised as "for the Baby Super Ref" (ベビースーパーレフ用). "Ref" was an abbreviation used in Japan at the time for "Reflex".
