Super plate folders
The Super (スーパー) and Special Super (スペッシャルスーパー) are Japanese 6.5×9 folding cameras taking film plates. They were distributed by Kikō-Dō around 1935 and were made by an unknown company.
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Description
The Super and Special Super have a metal body and double extension bellows. There is a brilliant finder and a wireframe finder. Focusing is done via a small wheel placed on the right of the folding bed and the distance scale is on the left. Both models have vertical movement. The Special Super adds lateral movement ability and perhaps a bubble level and chrome plating.[1]
Versions
The Super and Special Super were advertised in December 1935.[2] The following lens and shutter combinations were listed:
| body version | Super | Special Super |
| lens and shutter | ||
| Trionar f/6.3, Elka | ¥30 | ¥45 |
| Heliostar f/4.5, Koilos | ¥37 | ¥50 |
| Tenar[3] f/4.5, Rulex D | ¥40 | ¥53 |
| Radionar f/4.5, Rulex B | ¥50 | ¥65 |
| Radionar f/4.5, Rulex A | ¥55 | ¥70 |
| Radionar f/4.5, Auto Compur | ¥80 | ¥98 |
| Meyer f/3.5, Auto Compur | ¥85 | ¥105 |
| body only | ¥20 | ¥32 |
Notes
- ↑ Advertisement dated December 1935 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 74: a bubble level is barely visible to the side of the brilliant finder of the Special Super, and "chrome plating" is mentioned for that model only.
- ↑ Advertisement published in Photo Times, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 74.
- ↑ Inferred from the katakana テーナー.
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. Items 124–5.
The Prince is not listed in Sugiyama.
