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

• Template: Japanese Semi
• Template: Japanese Six
• Template: 127 Japan
• Template: Olympus classic
• Template: Riken prewar
• Template: Zeiss classic
• Template: Japanese TLR
• Template: Pontiac
• Template: Okada timeline
• Template: Daiichi timeline
• Template: Kigawa timeline

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

New pictures

• Adler IV
• Tsubasa Chrome
• Prince Flex
• Apollo
• Ruvinal III
• Sakura (box)

New ads

• leaflet with Semi Dymos, Baby Ref, Union Ref and リークス (?)
• leaflets with Baby Light and Roll Light Ref
• new Gochamaze ads:
  • Gelto
  • Baby Minolta and Minolta Vest
  • Picny
  • Olympic, Adler Six, Kinsi, Roico, Gaica, Heil
  • Vero Four

Minolta

• Semi Minolta split and:
  • Semi I: guide rails and functioning of exposure counter disc
  • Semi II: Tanimura
  • Accessories: AA and hbpartner
  • Auto Semi: Tanimura
  • Semi III and Semi P: Tanimura, AA's file, hbpartner
• find CCS n°12, 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 and 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
• Minolta Six
• Minolta Vest
• Baby Minolta

Olympic

• further split of Olympic?
• CCS 14
• JT about Vest Adler
• RS

Pages to rework

• more info already located:
  • Waltax and Semi Okaco (eBay auction about the Semi 2600)
  • Prince Flex (interview in Kokusan and TLR exhibition catalogue) -> Prince
  • Princeflex, Tōyō Seiki Kōgaku
  • details about the advance mechanism of the Lord (Tōkyō Kōgaku)
  • Toakoki, Gelto and Arsen are probably false about the company names
• after more research:
  • Rollekonter -> Semi Konter
  • 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)
• old format without ref tags and without analysis of ads:
  • Olympic
  • Olympus folders
  • Gelto
  • Gokoku / Ricohl
• badly presented or badly written:
  • Shinkoh Rabbit (poorly written, see McK)
  • Baby Pearl (not clearly presented)
  • Tsubasa Chrome (not clear enough)

Semi project

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

• prewar
  • Semi First
  • Semi Leotax
  • Wester folders
• postwar
  • Petri & Karoron models
  • Semi Leotax
  • Wester folders

The Template: Japanese Semi needs to be splitted into prewar and postwar, and the Japanese 4.5×6 folders needs to be improved, specially for the postwar period. The following pages would have (or already have) more than one template:

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

Alsaphot

• Alsaphot
• SIAP

Hosted pictures

• Adler
• Vest Alex and Vest Olympic
• Apollo and Mikado
• Centre Six
• Semi Kulax
• Semi Minolta
• Olympus folders
• Pearl (4.5×6 folders)
• Semi Prince
• Roico
• Baby Suzuka
• 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