Vesten

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The Vesten (ベステン)[1] is a Japanese camera taking 4×5cm exposures on 127 film. No surviving example has yet surfaced, and the camera is only known by advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi.

These advertisements are dated December 1940 and January 1941[2] and were inserted by the distributor Ueda Shashinki-ten. No picture of the camera is shown and it is not known if it has a folding or rigid body. The text mentions auto-stop advance, an f/3.5 lens and a Star-Rapid shutter with 1s low speed. The top speed is not mentioned but it is probably 1/500.[3] The price of ¥125 is indicated in the first advertisement.

Notes

  1. The name "Vesten" is unsure: it could as well be "Besten", "Besuten" or another variation.
  2. Both advertisements published in Asahi Camera, reproduced by Kokusan kamera no rekishi on pp. 72 and 77.
  3. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 341.

Bibliography

This camera is not listed in Sugiyama.