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.)
Notes
- ↑ Date: Lewis, p.27.
- ↑ Example pictured in Sugiyama, item 4008.
- ↑ Example pictured in Sugiyama, item 4009, in Lewis, p.27, in Yazawa, p.15 of Camera Collectors' News no.264 and in this page of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology.
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.
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