Venis

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The Venis is a Japanese plate folder in meishi (5.5×8cm) size, attributed to Ichikawaya.[1] It is dated 1933 in some sources, but it looks more like a 1920s camera.[2]

The Venis is a horizontal folder, with a wooden body and a folding Newton finder at the top. There is a small round plate on the left of the viewfinder, certainly displaying the camera name. It seems that the camera is focused by a lever on the photographer's right.

The example pictured in Sugiyama has a simple shutter with I, T, O settings, inscribed Venis at the top. The lens is perhaps a double achromat, reportedly with no diaphragm.[3]

Notes

  1. Attribution to Ichikawaya: Sugiyama, item 1258, repeated in McKeown, p.421.
  2. Dated 1933: Sugiyama, item 1258, repeated in McKeown, p.421.
  3. Sugiyama, item 1258, says "double lens — no diaphragm".

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