Suzuki
Suzuki (鈴木) was a Japanese company in the first half of the 1940s. It is mentioned in the April 1943 government inquiry as a lens maker.[1]
Suzuki Optical Co. is mentioned in camera auctions where the Suzuki Lite cigrarette lighter cameras are sold, and in a business directory as company which existed at least until 2002 in Fukui, Japan.
Lens list
This list is certainly incomplete.
- Bonny 50/4.5 mounted on the Bonny Four
- Bonny 75/4.5 mounted on the Bonny Six I and II
- Tenobder 75/4.5 mounted on the New Semi Renky
- Well 65/3.5 and 65/4.5 mounted on the Well Standard (the attribution of the 65/4.5 to Suzuki is unconfirmed)
- Well 75/3.5 and 75/4.5 mounted on the Well Super (the attribution of the 75/3.5 to Suzuki is unconfirmed)
All these lenses have three elements.[2]
Notes
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras").
- ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), lens items Jc3, K8, Lc17, Lc18 and Lc23.
Bibliography
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.
