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 Template:Japanese Six
• Template: 127 Japan
• Template: Olympus classic
• Template: Riken prewar
• Template: Zeiss classic
• Template: Japanese TLR
• Template: Pontiac
• Olympus folders (work in progress)

Finished 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, Tsubasaflex, Graceflex, Carl Six

Admin todo list

New main page

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

Gochamaze

• The Gochamaze ads have changed, needs an update

Websites to contact

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

Wikipedia stuff

On July 6, 2006, WP user Helicoptor has cut and paste articles verbatim from Camerapedia to Wikipedia, without stating that these articles came from Camerapedia. It appears that this WP user is no more active (see his "contris"). The concerned articles are:

• List of Fujifilm products = Fuji
• Fujimoto = Fujimoto
• Nicca = Nicca
• Goerz_(company) = Goerz
• Ground glass back = Ground glass back
• Guess focusin = Guess focusing
• Fixed focusing = Fixed focusing
• Reflex finder = Reflex finder

User todo list

Short term

Work in progress

• Semi Proud postwar models
• Doris postwar models
• Baby Pearl

Pages to rework

• recheck details about the Lord (Tōkyō Kōgaku)
• Prince Flex (interview in Kokusan and TLR exhibition catalogue) -> Prince
• Princeflex, Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku
• Victor folders -> Condor folders
• Doris
• Sintax (picture in the folders exhibition catalogue)
• Olympic
• Olympus folders

Semi project

Prewar:

• Bekina
• Semi Clover
• Semi First
• Semi Kreis
• National (120 folders)
• New Gold
• Semi Konter
• Semi Leotax
• Semi Mulber
• Semi Rody
• Rovic
• Seves
• Semi Solon
• Star Semi
• Victor folders
• Wester folders

Postwar:

• Apollo
• Petri & Karoron models
• Semi Leotax
• Semi Oscon

Six project

• Tomic

Shinkoh

• Muse Six
• Muse Flex

Alsaphot

• Alsaphot
• SIAP

Long term

Complex connections

• the Prince, Fujimoto, Neumann & Heilemann, Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku, Doris, connection, should become clearer soon
• the Walz, Nihon Shōkai, Okada, Daiichi Kogaku connection, almost clarified (except Walz)
• the Toakoki connection, obscure

Unknown cameras

• Vanguard / Freude
• Banno / Kimura Alma Four
• Akabane Friend
• Amano 66 : http://coolys.exblog.jp/3263433/

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

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