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

Past work

Some work areas

• Template: Japanese Semi and Six
• Template: 127 Japan
• Template: Olympus classic
• Template: Riken prewar
• Template: Zeiss classic
• Template: Japanese TLR
• Template: Pontiac

Pretty good pages

• Condor folders
• Zeitax
• Okada, Daiichi Kōgaku and other related cameras: Semi Okaco, Waltax, Zenobia, Union Semi and Walcon
• Optochrom, Kigawa and other related cameras: Baby Chrome, Baby Oso, Semi Chrome, Tsubasa Chrome, Tsubasa Spring, Tsubasa Super Semi, Tsubasa Arawashi, Tsubasa Nettar, Tsubasa Kiko III, Semi Kulax, Kiko Semi, Gotex, Kiko Flex, Poppy Six, Poppy, Tsubasa Semi
• Olympus folders (work in progress)

Personal todo list

Admin tasks

Images to check:

• Polaroid 600/600 SE, Yashica Electro GX, Fujipet
• Yashica Lynx 14E
• GAF

Websites to contact:

• Gochamaze: done
• Syarakuse: done
• Japan Family Camera: email sent
• Asacame: todo
• Nekosan's website: todo

User tasks

Things to sort out:

• the Prince, Fujimoto, Neumann & Heilemann, Toyo Seiki, Doris, connection
• the Walz, Nihon Shokai, Okada, Daiichi Kogaku connection
• the Toakoki connection

Unknown cameras to search about:

• Vanguard / Freude
• Tachibana Baby Pilot (橘トレーディング ベビーパイロット)
• Banno / Kimura Alma Four
• Akabane Friend
• Amano 66 : http://coolys.exblog.jp/3263433/

Stubs to expand:

• Pearlette
• Lyra Six
• Semi Lyra
• Primo
• Waltax
• Miniflex

Some tools for Japanese language

Useful characters: 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

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