Teica
The Teica (テイカ) is a Leica copy made by the Japanese company Teikoku Kōgaku (later called Zunow), about which almost nothing is known.
The camera appears in a single article by Sakurai Minoru (桜井実) in the September 1951 issue of Photo Art, reported in the book Kokusan kamera no rekishi.[1] The camera is described as a copy of the Leica II, equipped with a Zunow 50/1.2 lens designed by Hamano Michisaburō (浜野道三郎), who worked for Nippon Kōgaku before joining Teikoku Kōgaku.[2] No other detail is known, and no surviving example of the camera has been found so far.
The name Teica was certainly constructed from Teikoku and Camera, similarly to "Leica", "Konica", "Yashica" and many others.
Notes
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.355.
- ↑ See Zunow for Hamano Michisaburō.
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. Item 609.
