Sweet
The Sweet (ズイート) is a Japanese folding camera sold by Sone Shunsuidō from 1918.[1] It takes No.0 plates (about 4×5cm), a size which would be called "Sweet-size" after the success of the camera.
The Sweet is a folding camera, with a simple lens, a simple shutter giving Bulb and Instant or Time and Instant settings, a small brilliant finder and rails allowing to slide the front standard back and forth for focusing.
The original Sweet has a wooden body and the name SWEET above the lens and on the side of the body.[2] The Alpha is a metal version , with the name ALPHA inscribed on a disc above the lens. The Pony Sweet is a later metal version with additional folding struts, certainly made in the 1920s; the name PONY SWEET is inscribed below the lens, together with the mention MADE BY TOKYO CAMERA WORKS.[3] (Tokyo Camera Works was the name of the manufacturing branch of Sone Shunsuidō in the 1920s.)
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Bibliography
- Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). Pp.27.
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5. Items 4008–10.
- Yazawa Seiichirō (矢沢征一郎). "Renzu no hanashi (174) Tesutā" (レンズの話[174]テスター, Lens story [164] Testar). In Camera Collectors' News no.264 (June 1999). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.11–6.