User:Rebollo fr

Camera interests

Everyday cameras:

• Olympus OM-1, OM-4 Ti and Pen F
• Leicaflex SL
• Werra IV

Collecting interests:

• Zeiss Ikon and Voigtländer
• weird British press cameras

Today's research interest:

• Japanese cameras from the 1930s to the 1950s

Work areas

Japanese cameras

• Template: Japanese Semi
• Template: Japanese Six
• Template: Japanese Baby and Four
• Template: Japanese Vest
• Template: Japanese TLR
• Template: Riken prewar
• Template: Olympus classic
• Template: Okada timeline
• Template: Daiichi timeline
• Template: Kigawa timeline

Other

• Template: Zeiss classic
• Template: Pontiac
• Template: Bolsey

Admin todo list

New main page

• Template: Articles of the month/October, 2006
• Template: Articles of the month/November, 2006
• Camerapedia.org:Votes/Articles of the month

Image rights

Apply the public domain, creative commons, with permission and fair use image rights templates to all the images.

Websites to contact

• Gochamaze: done
• Syarakuse: done
• Japan Family Camera: email sent, no answer
• Asacame: todo
• Nekosan's website: todo
• Shashin-Bako

Markup

Explore Wikipedia:NavFrame. See also this French help page. It needs to set "$wgAllowUserJs = true;" in LocalSettings.php.

User todo list

Semi project

All the Semi pages are up and running except the following:

• prewar
  • Semi First
  • Wester folders
• postwar
  • Petri & Karoron models
  • Wester folders
  • セミロード (item 1046 of Kokusan kamera no rekishi)
  • ロッキーセミ (item 1054 of Kokusan kamera no rekishi and Umemoto company history)
  • Postwar section of Japanese 4.5×6 folders

Work in progress

• Baby Semi First

Pictures to insert

4.5×6

• Mulix
• Semi Minolta accessories

4×6.5

• Baby Minolta

Documentation to insert

• Ohashi leaflets with the Hope, Baby Light and Roll Light Ref

Pictures newly observed

4.5×6

• Apollo
• Semi Rosen

6×6 4×4

• Adler IV

4×6.5

• Tsubasa Chrome

TLR

• Prince Flex

Documentation newly observed

4.5×6

• Gaica ads in Gochamaze
• Heil ads in Gochamaze
• Olympic ads in Gochamaze
• Tanimura articles about the Semi Minolta I and II
• Tanimura articles about the Auto Semi Minolta
• Tanimura articles about the Semi Minolta III
• Tanimura articles about the Semi Minolta P
• Classic Camera Senka n°14 for Semi Olympic
• Waltax and Semi Okaco (eBay auction about the Semi 2600)

3×4 and 4×4

• Gelto ads in Gochamaze
• Kinsi ads in Gochamaze
• Olympic ads in Gochamaze
• Picny ads in Gochamaze
• Roico ads in Gochamaze
• Vero Four ads in Gochamaze
• Classic Camera Senka n°14 for Olympic
• Classic Camera Senka n°14 for Gokoku / Ricohl

4×6.5

• Baby Minolta and Minolta Vest ads in Gochamaze

TLR

• Prince Flex (interview in Kokusan and TLR exhibition catalogue) -> Prince
• Rollekonter -> Semi Konter

Pages to rework

4.5×6

• details about the advance mechanism of the Lord (Tōkyō Kōgaku)
• Rollekonter -> Semi Konter
• Olympus folders
• Shinkoh Rabbit (poorly written, see McK)

6×6

• Minolta Six

3×4 and 4×4

• Toakoki, Gelto and Arsen are probably false about the company names
• Gokoku / Ricohl
• Baby Pearl (not clearly presented)

4×6.5

• Minolta Vest
• Baby Minolta
• Tsubasa Chrome (not clear enough)

TLR

• Princeflex, Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku

Other

• Split Semi Minolta into:
  • Semi Minolta I and II
  • Auto Semi Minolta
  • Semi Minolta III
  • Semi Minolta P
• split Olympic and Semi Olympic
• contact RS for the Semi Olympic
• contact JT about Vest Adler

Makers

• Ueda (after Semi Solon, Star Semi, Comet, Vero Four and Vesten)
• Shinkoh (after Muse Six and Muse Flex, see also Rorox and Leadaflex in McK)

Documentation wanted

• Classic Camera Senka n°12 "Minolta no subete"
• 季刊クラシックカメラ n°14
• アサヒカメラニューフェース診断室—ミノルタの軌跡
• ミノルタカメラのすべて—懐かしいミノルタ往年のモデル500機種を凝縮

Templates

The Template: Japanese Semi has been split into prewar and postwar. The following pages have more than one navigational block. The decision to keep or split depends on whether the pre & post or semi & six models are very different or not.

• Condor folders (semi pre & six) -> keep
• Daido Six and Semi (semi post & six)-> split
• Semi Leotax (semi pre & post) -> keep
• Semi Minolta (semi pre & post) -> split
• National and Ugein (semi pre & six) -> keep
• Oko folders (semi pre & six) -> split
• Olympic (semi pre & 127) -> split
• Olympus folders (semi pre & post & six) -> split
• Pearl (4.5×6 folders) (semi pre & post) -> keep
• Proud postwar folders (semi post & six) -> split when illustrated
• Semi Sport (semi pre & post) -> keep
• Victor folders (semi pre & six) -> keep
• Waltax (semi pre & post) -> keep
• Well (semi pre & 127) -> split
• Wester folders (semi pre & post & six)

French cameras

Alsaphot

• Alsaphot
• SIAP

Hosted pictures

• Adler
• Vest Alex and Vest Olympic
• Apollo and Mikado
• Centre Six
• Crown
• Semi Dymos
• Japanese 3×4 and 4×4 pseudo TLR cameras
• Semi Kulax
• Semi Minolta
• Mulix
• Ōhashi
• Olympus folders
• Pearl (4.5×6 folders)
• Picny
• Semi Prince
• Reex
• Roico
• Seves
• Baby Suzuka
• Union Ref and Hansa Rollette Ref
• Victory
• Waltax
• Zenobia

Some tools for Japanese language

Useful characters: ā ē ī ō Ō ū Ⅰ型 Ⅱ型 Ⅲ型.

Links to older style kanji characters:

• The Unihan database, to find any Unicode kanji
• A list of kanji, with some very unusual ones (JIS-2), and another one with small graphic variants
• A guide to 旧漢字
• A page with thousands of readings for addresses in Tokyo

Japanese words, mostly in older script:

• 焦點＝焦点: focus
• 鏡玉: lens
• 速寫ケース: eveready case (速写: snapshot)
• 捲上＝巻き上げ: winding
• 廣角＝広角: wide angle
• 筒型透視ファインダー: tubular optical finder
• 國産=国産: home-made, Japan made
• 拾=十: ten

• a list of Japanese patents by company