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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
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* [http://umemoto.ecnet.jp/corp2/corp2.htm Company history] at the [http://umemoto.ecnet.jp/index.htm Umemoto official website], the page is written by the grandson of the founder and is highly informative
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* [http://umemoto.ecnet.jp/corp2/corp2.htm Company history] at the [http://umemoto.ecnet.jp/index.htm Umemoto official website], the page is written by Umemoto Akio (grandson of the founder Umemoto Kinzaburō) and is highly informative
  
  

Revision as of 18:51, 8 February 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 Kikōdō 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 and Neure Six 6×6 strut-folders and the Super Flex Baby 4×4 SLR, which was certainly the first Japanese roll-film SLR. Most cameras made by the company were distributed by Kikōdō. The production of cameras was stopped in 1942 and the company was required to make military equipment. The Tokyo plant was burnt down in 1945 and the company moved to Yamagata between 1945 and 1948 before coming back to Tokyo.[3]

After the war, the company briefly took the name Umemoto Kōki Seisakusho (梅本光機製作所, i.e. Umemoto Optical Works) and made one last attempt at camera production with the Rocky Semi, but this was not a commercial success.

The company became Yūgen-gaisha Umemoto Seisakusho (有限会社梅本製作所) in 1962. It still (2007) exists and makes photography-related parts, like tripod heads for Kenko.

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Notes

  1. Umemoto company history.
  2. According to the Umemoto company history, the address was Tōkyō-shi Jōtō-ku Kameido-chō 3-chōme 84-banchi (東京市城東区亀戸町三丁目八四番地) before the war and Tōkyō-to Kōtō-ku Kameido (東京都江東区亀戸) after the war.
  3. Umemoto company history.

Links

In Japanese:


Umemoto cameras
6×6 strut folders 4×4 SLR 4.5×6 folder
Super Makinet Six | Neure Six Super Flex Baby Semi Makinet | Rocky Semi