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 surfaced so far and the camera is only known from Kokusan kamera no rekishi.

The camera was mentioned in the Template:Kakaku1940 short listing the official prices as of October 25, 1940, under the name "Star Vesten" (¥125), with no further detail.[2]

Advertisements dated December 1940 and January 1941 were inserted by the distributor Ueda Shashinki-ten.[3] No picture of the camera is shown and it is not known if it has a folding or rigid body. The advertising 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.[4] The price was ¥125, as indicated in the first advertisement.

Notes

  1. The name "Vesten" is unsure: it could as well be "Besten", "Besuten" or another variation.
  2. Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 1, section 10.
  3. Advertisements published in Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 72 and 77.
  4. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 341.

Bibliography

This camera is not listed in Sugiyama.