Yamamoto Shashinki-ten
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Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop) was a Japanese distributor at the end of the 1930s, based in Osaka.[1] It distributed a number of cameras called Weha and was certainly the owner of the Weha brand.
See also Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsaku-sho, a camera maker based in Tokyo that is probably not related.
Weha cameras and accessories
- Weha Light (6.5×9 plate folder)[2]
- Weha Six (6×6 folder)
- Weha Chrome Six (6×6 rangefinder)
- Weha accessory rangefinder (sold ¥15 in 1936)[3]
- Weha enlarger (1940–1)[4]
Other distributed cameras
- Baby Lyra by Fuji Kōgaku (in 1936)[3]
- Semi Lyra by Fuji Kōgaku (in 1936)[3]
- Wester or Semi Wester (4.5×6 folder) by Nishida (authorized dealer for Kansai in 1943)[5]
Notes
- ↑ Its address from 1937 to 1939 was Ōsaka-shi Nishi-ku Awaza-nakadōri 1-chōme (大阪市西区阿波座中通一丁目). Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 59–60.
- ↑ According to this page and this page at ksmt.com.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Advertisement published in the December 13, 1936 issue of Sunday Mainichi, reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 60.
- ↑ Advertisement dated March 1943 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 59.
Links
- Advertisement showing the Weha rangefinder, published in the December 13, 1936 issue of Sunday Mainichi, reproduced in the camera company page of the Gochamaze website
- First and second mention of the Weha Light at ksmt.com
