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''See also the [[Prince]] page for a related discussion.''
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The name '''Doris''' appears on various Japanese cameras:
 
* cameras attributed  to a company called Prince Camera Works (by {{McKeown}}) or to Fukada Shōkai (深田商会) (by {{Kokusan}}):
 
** Baby Doris I, II, III, 3×4 folding
 
* cameras attributed to Fukada Shōkai (by {{Kokusan}}):
 
** Doris, 3×4 strut collapsible
 
* cameras attributed to Tokyo Seiki (東京精機株式会社 Tōkyō Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha) (by McKeown<!-- and {{Kokusan}} or Niimi ?-->):
 
** Doris, 6&times;4.5 folding
 
** Doris P, 6&times;4.5 folding
 
* cameras attibuted to a company called Doris Camera (ドリスカメラ) (by McKeown<!-- and {{Kokusan}} ?-->):
 
** Doris IA, 6&times;4.5 folding
 
** Doris Six, 6&times;6
 
** [[Dorisflex]]
 
** [[Dorisflex|Dorisflex A]]
 
 
 
Niimi does not mention Fukada Shōkai but says that the Doris of Tokyo Seiki was named after its maker (presumably meaning designer), a Mr Motodori (本鳥): "Dori's camera", thus "Doris".<ref>Niimi, p. 92.</ref>
 
 
 
A 4.5&times;6 folder has been observed at a Yahoo Japan auction with the name ''DORIS'' engraved in the top housing. Its body was a copy of the [[Ikonta A]] but its finder was enclosed in a top housing, with an accessory shoe and a rotating depth-of-field scale. There were two horizontal lines on the front of the top housing, reminiscent of the [[Pearl II]] by [[Konishiroku]], but on the other side of the finder. There was one red window in the back, protected by a sliding cover. The lens was a 75mm f:3.5 (name barely legible, maybe Penta-Anastigmat) and the shutter had B, 1&ndash;200 speeds. A similar camera is pictured in {{McKeown}}, without the depth-of-field scale and with a Convex B, 10&ndash;200 shutter and a 75/3.5 lens. It is identified as a Doris Semi P and McKeown says that the lens is called "Perfa Anastigmat".
 
 
 
==Notes==
 
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==References / further reading ==
 
 
 
* Niimi Kahee (新見嘉兵衛). ''Kamera-mei no gogen sanpo'' (カメラ名の語源散歩, Strolls in the etymology of camera names). 2nd ed. Tokyo: Shashin Kōgyō Shuppansha, 2002. ISBN 4-87956-060-X
 
* {{Showa10}}
 
* {{McKeown12}} Pp. 250, 803, 927&ndash;8.
 
 
 
[[Category: Camera makers]]
 
[[Category: Japanese companies]]
 

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