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It was maybe related to the distributor Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop), which sold a 6.5×9 folding plate camera called Weha Light around 1930, the [[Weha Chrome Six]] from 1937 and was an authorized dealer of the [[Wester folders|Wester or Semi Wester]] 4.5×6 folder by [[Nishida]]. | It was maybe related to the distributor Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop), which sold a 6.5×9 folding plate camera called Weha Light around 1930, the [[Weha Chrome Six]] from 1937 and was an authorized dealer of the [[Wester folders|Wester or Semi Wester]] 4.5×6 folder by [[Nishida]]. | ||
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| + | == 3×4 telescopic == | ||
| + | * Kinka Lucky | ||
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| + | == 4.5×6 folder == | ||
| + | * [[Semi Kinka]] | ||
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| + | == 6×9 folder == | ||
| + | * Kinka Roll | ||
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| + | == 6.5×9 plate folders == | ||
| + | * Kinka | ||
| + | * Eliott | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
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| + | == Printed bibliography == | ||
| + | * {{Lewis}} Pp. 47–8, brief mention of the Kinka and Eliott. | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
Revision as of 12:56, 7 August 2006
Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsaku-sho (山本写真機工作所) is a Japanese company that made cameras before World War II. It made a series of cameras called Kinka,[1] among them the Semi Kinka, a 4.5×6 folder, copy of the Nettar. Its address in 1937 was Tōkyō, Kanda, Ogawa-chō 2 (東京・神田・小川町二)[2].
It was maybe related to the distributor Yamamoto Shashinki-ten (山本写真機店, meaning Yamamoto Camera Shop), which sold a 6.5×9 folding plate camera called Weha Light around 1930, the Weha Chrome Six from 1937 and was an authorized dealer of the Wester or Semi Wester 4.5×6 folder by Nishida.
Contents
3×4 telescopic
- Kinka Lucky
4.5×6 folder
6×9 folder
- Kinka Roll
6.5×9 plate folders
- Kinka
- Eliott
Notes
- ↑ The name Kinka is sometimes written 錦華, that roughly means "imperial flower".
- ↑ Advertisement for the Semi Kinka, published in the November 1937 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, item 68.
Printed bibliography
- Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), 0-935398-16-3 (hard). Pp. 47–8, brief mention of the Kinka and Eliott.
