User:Rebollo fr

Sub-pages: Flickr hosted material and New documents

Camera interests

Everyday cameras:

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1
• Olympus OM-1, OM-4 Ti and Pen F
• Leicaflex SL
• Werra IV

Research and collecting interests:

• Japanese cameras up to the 1950s
• British press cameras

Work areas

Japanese cameras

• Template: Japanese Baby and Four
• Template: Japanese Vest
• Template: Japanese Semi
• Template: Japanese Six
• Template: Japanese older 6×9
• Template: Japanese plate
• Template: Japanese TLR
• Template: Japanese pseudo TLR
• Template: Japanese medium format SLR
• Template: Japanese post 1960 medium format VF and RF
• Template: Japanese subminiature
• Template: Riken prewar and wartime
• Template: Minolta prewar and wartime
• Template: Konishiroku prewar and wartime
• Template: Olympus classic
• Template: Okada timeline
• Template: Daiichi timeline
• Template: Fuji Kōgaku
• Template: Kigawa timeline
• Template: Umemoto

Other

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

Hosted on Flickr

Material hosted on Flickr

User todo list

WIP

WIP tag on:

• Olympus Eye 44
• Mica Automat

Unfinished tag on:

• Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai
• Minolta plants

Cleanup tag on:

• Olympus Flex
• Olympus Eye 44

Pre-1945 Japanese cameras

Near exhaustive coverage. Missing or incomplete:

• major cameras:
  • Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: unfinished
  • Mamiya Six
  • Elmoflex
• 35mm cameras:
  • pre-1945 Canon: Kwanon, Hansa Canon, Canon S and Canon J
  • Nippon (35mm)
  • pre-1945 Leotax
• very old cameras:
  • imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
  • Star Nipper (Ueda)
  • Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)

Semi

All the prewar and wartime pages have reached a stable state.

Most postwar pages are up and running, but many of them still need attention:

• Daiichi models:
  • Zenobia
  • Walcon Semi
  • Union Semi
• Minolta models:
  • Semi Minolta III
  • Semi Minolta P
• Kuribayashi models:
  • Petri (Semi)
  • Karoron RF and Petri RF
  • Petri Super
  • Karoron
• Konishiroku models:
  • Pearl (I), II and III
  • Pearl IV
• other pages:
  • Middl 120
  • Tsubasa Semi, the Rosen is a separate model related to JID
  • Shinkoh Rabbit
  • Tomy
  • Semi Hobix
  • Doris (4.5×6)
  • Japanese 4.5×6 folders

Six

All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running. Some still need attention:

• Mamiya Six

A number of postwar pages are missing. The following are sketchy or near void:

• Doris Six
• First Six (postwar)
• Super Fujica Six
• Fujipet
• Futami Six
• Mamiya Six
• Mizuho Six
• Mount Six
• Press Van
• Welmy Six
• Wester 6×6 folders

The following are already good, but need minor additions:

• Carl Six
• Daido Six
• Ehira Six and Astoria Super Six
• Fujica Six
• Middl 120
• Mihama Six
• Mine Six
• Rich-Ray-6
• Sisley 1 and Balm Six
• Walcon 6

TLR

All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running, except that on the Elmoflex.

The postwar pages are largely incomplete. Coming soon:

• Olympus Flex, in need of a major clean-up
• Tsubasaflex, Orionflex, Rectaflex (TLR) and Graceflex, to merge in a single page on Kigawa postwar TLR

All the pages about 4×4 models are created. Some pages are incomplete:

• Olympus Eye 44: clean-up, WIP
• Yashica-44
• Primo Jr: user manuals

All the pages about 35mm models are created. The Yallu Flex page might be completed.

Medium format SLR

Many pages on major recent models are incomplete.

Next on the list:

• Carlflex
• Amano 66
• Konica SF

Vest

All the Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) pages have reached a stable condition.

Baby and Four

All the pages are have reached a stable condition, except the following:

• other two-window rangefinder conversions than the Cyclon are known to exist
• the postwar Gelto exists in silver and golden finish; unclear s/n details

6×9

All the pages have reached a stable condition.

Plate

All the pages have reached a stable condition, except some very old models:

• imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
• Star Nipper (Ueda)
• Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)

Some more details might be added on other very old models:

• imported Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
• Cherry

35mm

All the articles about Japanese 35mm folding, 35mm stereo and 35mm TLR cameras have reached a stable condition, except for the Konilette and Yallu Flex.

A few articles on 35mm cameras with focal-plane shutter are done. Next on the list:

• Kwanon
• Nippon (35mm)
• Nicca (bottom loading)
• Nicca (hinged back)
• Leotax (two-piece cover)
• Leotax (one-piece cover)
• Leotax G

Bolta film

All the prewar and wartime models are done, and the whole Boltax, Silver, Dan and Minon series is done too. Most other postwar models are missing.

No-need-darkroom film

Prewar and wartime models:

• Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: unfinished

Subminiature

All the prewar and wartime models have reached a stable condition. A number of postwar models have been addressed too.

Remaining 16mm models:

• Binoca
• Mamiya 16
• Mica Automat: WIP
• Konan 16 and Stereo Konan
• Minolta 16, Sonocon 16
• Nice
• Olympus SC-16
• Golden Steky and Ricoh 16
• Rubix and Rubina
• Steky
• Teleca / Cyclops
• Yashica Y16 and Yashica 16 EE

Remaining 17.5mm models:

• Gemflex
• Hit
• Hit-type cameras
• Mighty

Other:

• Camera Lite and Echo 8
• Petal
• Yashica Atoron

Stereo

All the pages have reached a stable condition. The only missing camera is the Stereo Konan-16, and perhaps a few modern cameras.

Lenses

A few pages on interchangeable lenses are done.

Next:

• Tanar lenses: WIP
• Zunow lenses for rangefinder cameras
• Fuji lenses for Leica and Nikon

Shutters

Many Japanese leaf shutters have been treated.

Pending pictures

• Semi Minolta (I) and II: rangefinders
• Meisupi and other Tougodo cameras
• Toyoca 35: one more camera and more details
• Owla Stereo: more cameras
• Gelto: lens no.30747
• Gelto and Arsen: new pictures by Rick Soloway in the pool
• Arco 35, early example

Pending documentation

See User:Rebollo fr/New documents

Websites to check

• Find Flickr photo owner and get original size
• Liveauctioneers lists Westlicht from auction no.7 onwards
• Neco's camera collection: many pics, extremely active history
• Novacon on Japanese SLR, pics taken from the Flickr account
• Post on the Zenobiaflex
• www.photo-technique.com
• Fora:
  • [1]
  • [2]
  • [3]
  • [4]
  • [5]
• [6]
• Operation Crayon (pdf)
• Seymour Exakta (pdf)
• [7]
• [8]
• [9]

New documents

See User:Rebollo_fr/New documents

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
• Table of shin- and kyū-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
• To find the reading of a name
• Hito no namae, for first names
• To find a modern address

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
• 壱, 弐, 参, 肆, 伍, 陸, 漆, 捌, 玖, 拾, 佰, 阡, 拾 : numbers from 1 to 10, used to prevent alteration
• 壹, 貳, 參: old form of 1, 2, 3
• 米: metre (see here)
• 糎 or 珊: centimetre
• 粍: millimetre
• 寸: sun, 30.3mm
• 分: bu, 3.03mm
• 瓦: gram
• 匁: monme, 3.75g

Patents