Wester (wartime 4.5×6)
The Wester (ウエスター) or Semi Wester (セミウエスター) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folding camera made in the first half of the 1940s by Nishida.
It has nothing in common with the postwar Semi Wester and with the Wester 6×6 folders.
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Description
The Wester is a vertical folder, copy of the Nettar with straight diagonal struts. There is a folding optical finder, whose front part folds over the rear part. The folding bed release is on the right and the body release on the left, as seen by the photographer holding the camera horizontally. The back is hinged to the left and the film advance is certainly at the bottom right.
Documents
The official list of set prices compiled in October 1940 and published in January 1941 has four versions of the Wester, called "Wester I" (¥121), "Wester II" (¥160), "Wester B" (¥121) and "Wester BII" (¥160), with no further detail.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Template:Kakaku1940 short, type 3, sections 6B and 7B.
Bibliography
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7. Item 19.
- Template:Kakaku1940 Type 3, sections 6B and 7B.
Links
In Japanese:
- Advertisement for the Super Flex Baby and Semi Wester dated between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in Nostalgic Camera, a page by Toshio Inamura
