User:Rebollo fr

Sub-pages: Flickr hosted material and New documents

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 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: 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:

• Pearl (6×9 self-erecting)
• Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai
• K.O.L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount

Cleanup tag on:

• Olympus Flex
• Olympus Eye Flex

Unsourced tag on:

• Yashica (is a mess)

Pre-1945 Japanese cameras

Near exhaustive coverage. Missing:

• imported Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
• imported Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
• Cherry
• Star Nipper (Ueda)
• Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)
• Pearl (6×9 self-erecting): WIP
• Pearl (4.5×6)
• Baby Pearl
• Pearlette
• Semi Leotax
• Mamiya Six
• Elmoflex
• Semi Minolta: minor details
• Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai: WIP
• Mycro
• pre-1945 Canon
• Nippon (35mm)
• pre-1945 Leotax

Semi

All the prewar and wartime pages are up and running. The following need attention:

• big families:
  • Semi Minolta (I) and II
  • Pearl (4.5×6)
  • Semi Leotax

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
• 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
• the Green [1] is a name variant of the Gotex and Poppy Six, and has the same KKS logo as the Mulix

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. Weird names:

• Europaflex by Tougodo (see here)

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

• Olympus Eye Flex
• Yashica-44
• Primo Jr: user manuals

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

Medium format SLR

Most pages need work. Next on the list:

• Carlflex
• Amano 66

Vest

All the Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) pages are up and running. Only the Pearlette still needs attention.

Baby and Four

All the pages are up and running. The following need attention:

• Baby Pearl
• Yashica Future 127
• the rangefinder Molby in Sugiyama might be an aftermarket conversion (?)
• 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 are up and running. The following need attention:

• Pearl (6×9 self-erecting)
• Reex (article in KKS)

Plate

Next on the list:

• Cherry
• Britannia No.0 (Ueda)
• Little Nipper (Asanuma Shōkai, Ueda)
• Star Nipper (Ueda)
• Star Camera (Ueda, drop-plate)

35mm

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

Bolta film

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

No-need-darkroom film

Prewar and wartime models:

• Meiritto, Meisupi and Meikai

Subminiature

All the prewar and wartime models are done. A few postwar models have been addressed too.

Lenses

The following interchangeable lenses are done:

• Arco lenses
• Zeika Rojar 3.5cm f/3.5 for Leica
• Zuiko 4cm f/2.8 for Leica
• Zuiko 4cm f/3.5 for Exakta

Next:

• K.O.L. and Sun lenses in Leica screw mount
• identify the Prominar lenses in Leica screw mount
• Zunow lenses

Pending pictures

• Semi Minolta: two-window model; Rokkor lens; accessories
• Meisupi and other Tougodo cameras
• Owla Stereo: more cameras
• Gelto: lens no.30747

Pending documentation

For stable articles:

• Arco 35 and Arco 35 Automat
• Atom Six
• Beauty Six
• Olympus Chrome Six III
• Silver Six
• Silverflex

For other articles:

• Semi Mihama and Mihama Six
• Semi Leotax
• Leotax and Semi Leotax
• Pearl II
• Zenobia and Zenobiaflex
• Doris (4.5×6)

For non-existing articles:

• Midget
• Isocaflex
• Purple 35
• First Six V
• Olympus 35 IV

Postwar Minolta:

• Minolta history and plants
• Minolta range, c.1957, three types
• Minolta credit, 1950s
• Minolta range, early 1950s
• Minolta 35 E (English)
• Minolta 35 F (English)
• Rokkor lenses for Leica (English)
• Minoltaflex II
• Minoltaflex II (English)
• Minoltaflex II (English user manual)
• Minoltaflex IIB (English)
• Minoltaflex III (user manual)
• Minolta Semi P (English user manual)
• Minolta Miniflex

New pictures

• Find Flickr photo owner and get original size
• 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

New documents

See User:Rebollo_fr/New documents

Documentation wanted

Collectors' books

• Kurashikku Kamera Senka (クラシックカメラ専科):
  • 3 (postwar Japanese cameras)
  • 7 (early Canon and Nikon)
  • 16 (Minion 35)
  • 25 (Auto Terra Super, Arco 35 Automat)
  • 31 (Canon)
  • 33 (Fuji M39)
  • 57 (Roavic, Arco 35, Elmoflex)
• 季刊クラシックカメラ:
  • no.12 (Olympus)
  • no.14 (Minolta)
• エイムック・マニュアルカメラシリーズ:
  • no.316: オリンパスのすべて
• アサヒカメラニューフェース診断室
  • 名機70選にみる 「国産カメラの黄金時代」: アサヒカメラニューフェース診断室 (1957-84)
  • ミノルタの軌跡

Original documents

• カメラ カタログ
• アサヒカメラ:
  • 昭和5年5月 (Nifcarette)
  • 昭和5年8月 (Nifcaklapp)
  • 昭和5年9月 (Nifcarette)
  • 昭和6年1月 (Nifca range)
  • 昭和6年2月 (Nifca-Dox)
  • 昭和7年7月 (Sirius)
• カメラクラブ:
  • 第2巻3号　昭和12年3月 (Semi Olympus)
  • 第2巻4号　昭和12年4月 (Baika)
• フォトアート:
  • 昭和29年3月・今昔物語
• 特集カメラ / 別冊カメラ
• 写真の教室:
  • 臨時増刊昭和26年11月・国産カメラ全集
  • 臨時増刊昭和27年11月・国産カメラ全集
• 日本カメラ: カメラ年鑑 1952, etc.
• 日本写真機工業会: 日本カメラ年鑑 56-57 (and 58-59)
• Japan Optical and Precision Instruments Manufacturers' Association: Guide Book of Japanese Optical and Precision Instruments, 1953, 1955, (1957/8, 1959/60, 1961/2)
• 写真工業:
  • 昭和39年2月3月・薄幸のカメラ史 (02/64 and 03/64)
  • 05/2006: military Lily
• アルスカメラ
• 小型カメラ / 写真日本
• フォトタイムス / カメラアート / 報道写真 / 日本写真
• 光画月刊 / 月刊カメラ / カメラの友
• 写真文化 / 写真科学
• 写真サロン
• カメラファン
• Japanese company magazines

General historical books

• 日本写真機工業会編:
  • 「日本カメラ工業史」
  • 戦後日本カメラ発展史
  • 「日本写真機大図鑑」, 5 volumes: カメラ総合カタログ no.1 to 36 (1960 to 1969)
• 光学工業史編集会編・刊『兵器を中心とした日本の光学工業史』 (1955)

Company histories

• ミノルタカメラ株式会社:
  • 35年のあゆみ (1963) ASIN B000JAGFF0
  • 45年のあゆみ (1973) ASIN B000J9UTY4
  • 50年のあゆみ (1978)
• 寺岡精工所:
  • 技術とともに40年
  • 先進技術とともに50年
• オリンパス光学工業: 50年の歩み 改訂再版 (1969) ASIN B000J9SDCY
• エルモ社: 創造と和：エルモ社五十年の歩み (1974) ASIN B000J9UTBC
• コパル：
  • コパル10年 (1959) ASIN B000JAGZN2
  • 精密機器からエレクトロニクスまで (1969) ASIN B000J9UL4W
• 精工舎: 精工舎史話 (1968) ASIN B000J9R0LY
• 東京光学五十年史 (1982) ASIN B000J7DF3S
• 富士写真光機: 光を見つめて：富士写真光機50年史 (1995)
• リコー50年のあゆみ
• キヤノン史・技術と製品の50年 (1987)
• 日本光学工業:
  • 日本光学工業株式会社二十五年史 (1942)
  • 四十年史 (1960)
  • 50年の歩み (1967)
  • 五十年史 ①、②（日本社史全集） (1977)
  • 光とミクロと共に・ニコン75年史 (1993)

Bookshops

• Yogakudo
• Hagi Shobou
• Lila Shoten
• Da Vinci
• Hokutendo
• Ohta Shoten
• Furuhon Center
• Gyozando

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

• a list of Japanese patents by company

• IPDL website: Nice classification 9th edition class 09, sub-class 10B01 (090184) P0392, Japanese classification ウイーン分類表 16.3.1 and K, IPC classification G03B?
• International Patent Classification
• Japanese Patent System
• Japanese Patents FAQ

Admin todo list

New main page

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

Image rights

Apply the image rights templates to all the images:

• Template: Creative commons
• Template: With permission
• Template: Public domain Japan old
• Template: Public domain Japan new
• Template: Public domain UK
• Template: Public domain US no copyright
• Template: Public domain 1923
• Template: Public domain voluntary
• Template: Fair use

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.