Union Ref and Hansa Rollette Ref
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The Hansa Rollette Ref (ハンザ・ローレット・レフ) is a Japanese 4.5×6 camera, distributed by Ōmiya Shashin-yōhin K.K., the owner of the "Hansa" brand. It is a pseudo TLR: its shape imitates a twin lens reflex but the finder is nothing more than a big brilliant finder. It is said to be fixed-focus.[1] Its nameplate is only written Rollette Ref.
The Hansa Rollette Ref is featured in the new products column of the February 1936 issue of Asahi Camera[2], and it appears in the catalogue of Yamashita Yūjirō Shōten dated April 20, 1937[3], for ¥16. It is said to have a Tribar[4] 75/8 lens and a T, B, 25–100 shutter.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 339.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 339.
- ↑ Reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, items 182 and 183.
- ↑ Inferred from the katakana トリバー.
- ↑ Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 339.
Printed 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 183.
- Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). P. 54 (brief mention only).
Links
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