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== Notes == | == Notes == |
Revision as of 21:20, 30 January 2007
Umemoto Seisakusho (梅本製作所, i.e. Umemoto Works) is a Japanese company, founded in 1935 by Umemoto Kinzaburō (梅本金三郎), after the retailer Kikō-Dō asked him to set up a camera plant.[1] The factory was situated in Tokyo.[2]
Before the war, the company made the Super Makinet Six strut-folder and the Super Flex Baby 4×4 SLR, that was certainly the first Japanese roll-film SLR. Most cameras made by the company were distributed by Kikō-Dō.
After the war, the company made one last attempt at camera production with the Rocky Semi, but it was not a commercial success.
The company still exists and makes photography-related parts, like tripod heads for Kenko.
Camera list
- Super Makinet Six 6×6 strut-folder (1936–9)
- Neure Six 6×6 strut-folder (1937)
- Super Flex Baby 4×4 SLR
- Rocky Semi 4.5×6 folder
Notes
- ↑ Umemoto company history.
- ↑ The address was Tōkyō-shi Jōtō-ku Kameito-chō 3-chōme 84-banchi (東京市城東区亀戸町三丁目八四番地) according to the Umemoto company history.
Links
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