Tachibana
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
