Umemoto

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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

Notes

  1. Umemoto company history.
  2. 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.

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