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The Navy Field Camera (21cm & 36cm) (¶¶¶) was produced for the Japanese Navy by Rokuoh-sha( (六桜社) ) / Konishiroku) (小西六)[1]
f/4.5 21cm or 36cm , plate size 12 x 16.5 (nominally)
discuss relationship to Army camera
A report from the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan, written in December 1945, gives detailed production figures (Table 1), showing that the camera was introduced in 1942.[1] The dramatic drop of actual deliveries compared or orders in 1945 shows the impact of the Allied bombing on specialised camera production.
Table 1 Production volume of Navy Field Cameras for the period 1941-1945[1]
| Year | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | Total |
| 21cm model | ||||||
| Ordered | — | 150 | 150 | 300 | 300 | 900 |
| Delivered | — | 127 | 28 | 293 | 20 | 468 |
| 36cm model | ||||||
| Ordered | — | 80 | 100 | 120 | 120 | 420 |
| Delivered | — | 55 | 124 | 3 | — | 182 |
Army Type B Field Camera
The Army Type B Field Camera (21cm) (¶¶¶) was produced for the Japanese Army by Rokuoh-sha( (六桜社) ) / Konishiroku) (小西六)[1]
discuss relationship to Navy camera
A report from the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan, written in December 1945, gives detailed production figures (Table 1), showing that the camera was introduced in 1941.[1] f/4.5 21cm , plate size 12 x 16.5 (nominally)
Table 1 Production volume of Army Type B Field Camera for the period 1941-1945[1]
| Year | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | Total |
| Ordered | 75 | 125 | 50 | 50 | — | 300 |
| Delivered | 50 | 100 | — | 100 | — | 250 |
As was custom with all Japanese military camera gear, the the Type 99 Handheld Aerial Cameras (15cm) (九九式航空写真機十五糎) were supplied as a set complete with all the required paraphernalia (such as filters, additional magazines etc).
Storage Boxes
Table 1 Shape of boxes
| Type | Manufacturer (of camera) |
Serial number (range) Date (if known) |
Material | Dimensions (L x B x H) | External View | Internal View | ||||
| Type 1 | Fuji Shashin Film | 62 | Plywood with leather covering |
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| Type 2 | Fuji Shashin Film | sn#122[2] | Wood |
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| Type 3 | Rokuoh-sha | sn#393 | Plywood with leather covering |
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| images by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) | ||||||||||
Packaging Lists
To ensure that store personnel could account for the contents of the sets, camera manufacturers affixed content labels on the insides of the storage boxes. These labels were made of aluminum, printed paper or (cheaper) duplication by mimeograph or Whiteprint.
Table 2 Packing Labels (Lists of Contents)
| Type | Manufacturer of Camera | Serial number (range) | Material | Date (if known) | |||
| Type 1 | Fuji Shashin Film | 62 | Aluminium |
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| Type 2 | Fuji Shashin Film | Paper, printed Type-set Kanji Characters |
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| Type 3 | Fuji Shashin Film | 122 | Paper, mimeographed[3] Hand-written Kanji Characters |
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| Type 4 | Rokuoh-sha | Paper, printed Type-set Kanji Characters |
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| Type 5 | Rokuoh-sha | 393 | Paper, Whiteprint ('diazo')[4] Hand-written Kanji Characters |
1944 (May) |
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| images by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) | |||||||
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Japanese Naval Photography. Compiled by Lt W.D.Hedden, USNR, with LtCdr G.Z.Dimitroff USNR and Lt(jg) W.A. Seymour, USNR. Intelligence Targets Japan (DNI) of 4 September 1945. Facicle A-1, Target A-39. U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan. December 1945. pp.8-9 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "JNP p8" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ The camera that came with the case is a Rokuoh-sha-built unit sn#1257, but the paper label in the lid shows that the box belonged to a Fuji Shashin Film-built unit sn#122.
- ↑ See this Wikipedia entry for the duplication technique.
- ↑ See this Wikipedia entry for the duplication technique.
