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− | '''Tachibana Shōkai''' (タチバナ商会)<REF> The name is consistently written タチバナ in ''katakana'' in the advertisements. It was written 橘 in the {{Inquiry1943_short}}. </REF> was a Japanese company based in Tokyo, Koishikawa.<REF> The address from 1938 to 1942 was Tōkyō, Koishikawa-ku Edogawa-chō 13 (東京小石川区江戸川町13). Source: advertisements reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p. | + | '''Tachibana Shōkai''' (タチバナ商会)<REF> The name is consistently written タチバナ in ''katakana'' in the advertisements. It was written 橘 in the {{Inquiry1943_short}}. </REF> was a Japanese company based in Tokyo, Koishikawa.<REF> The address from 1938 to 1942 was Tōkyō, Koishikawa-ku Edogawa-chō 13 (東京小石川区江戸川町13). Source: advertisements reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.83. </REF> It made and sold a series of cameras called Pilot in the late 1930s and early 1940s.<REF> Advertisements published in the January and September 1941 issue of ''Asahi Camera'' and reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.83, confirms that Tachibana was the maker of the Pilot cameras: "パイロツト写真用品製造発売元". The {{Inquiry1943_short}} also mentions Tachibana as the maker of the Baby Pilot and Pilot Six. </REF> It was still active in 1949 as the distributor of the Pilot photographic products.<REF> See this [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/utuki.html advertisement by Tachibana Shōkai] (at the top left) published in the December 1949 issue of ''Ars Camera'' and reproduced in [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera] by Toshio Inamura. </REF> |
== List of cameras == | == List of cameras == | ||
− | * [[Baby Pilot]] ( | + | * [[Baby Pilot]] (3×4 folder) |
− | * [[Pilot Six]] ( | + | * [[Pilot Six]] (6×6 folder) |
− | * [[Japanese | + | * [[Japanese 3×4 and 4×4 pseudo TLR|Pilot Ref]] (3×4 pseudo TLR) |
− | * [[Japanese | + | * [[Japanese 3×4 and 4×4 pseudo TLR|Pilot Ref]] (4×4 pseudo TLR) |
* Pilot field camera<REF> Sugiyama, item 1018. See also [http://www.ksmt.com/eos10d/eos_nikki_body6.htm#060130 this page at ksmt.com]. </REF> | * Pilot field camera<REF> Sugiyama, item 1018. See also [http://www.ksmt.com/eos10d/eos_nikki_body6.htm#060130 this page at ksmt.com]. </REF> | ||
Revision as of 00:17, 15 January 2008
Tachibana Shōkai (タチバナ商会)[1] was a Japanese company based in Tokyo, Koishikawa.[2] It made and sold a series of cameras called Pilot in the late 1930s and early 1940s.[3] It was still active in 1949 as the distributor of the Pilot photographic products.[4]
Contents
List of cameras
- Baby Pilot (3×4 folder)
- Pilot Six (6×6 folder)
- Pilot Ref (3×4 pseudo TLR)
- Pilot Ref (4×4 pseudo TLR)
- Pilot field camera[5]
Notes
- ↑ The name is consistently written タチバナ in katakana in the advertisements. It was written 橘 in the "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras").
- ↑ The address from 1938 to 1942 was Tōkyō, Koishikawa-ku Edogawa-chō 13 (東京小石川区江戸川町13). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.83.
- ↑ Advertisements published in the January and September 1941 issue of Asahi Camera and reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.83, confirms that Tachibana was the maker of the Pilot cameras: "パイロツト写真用品製造発売元". The "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras") also mentions Tachibana as the maker of the Baby Pilot and Pilot Six.
- ↑ See this advertisement by Tachibana Shōkai (at the top left) published in the December 1949 issue of Ars Camera and reproduced in Nostalgic Camera by Toshio Inamura.
- ↑ Sugiyama, item 1018. See also this page at ksmt.com.
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.
- "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.
- 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.
Links
In Japanese:
- Congo 18cm f:4.5 lens at ksmt.com, with mention of the Pilot field camera
- Advertisement by Tachibana Shōkai (at the top left) published in the December 1949 issue of Ars Camera and reproduced in Nostalgic Camera, a page by Toshio Inamura