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'''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,<REF> The name Kinka is sometimes written 錦華, that roughly means "imperial flower". </REF> among them the [[Semi Kinka]], a 4.5&times;6 folder, copy of the [[Nettar]]. Its address in 1937 was Tōkyō, Kanda, Ogawa-chō 2 (東京・神田・小川町二)<REF> {{Showa10ad|Semi Kinka|68|November 1937|Asahi Camera}} </REF>.
 
'''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,<REF> The name Kinka is sometimes written 錦華, that roughly means "imperial flower". </REF> among them the [[Semi Kinka]], a 4.5&times;6 folder, copy of the [[Nettar]]. Its address in 1937 was Tōkyō, Kanda, Ogawa-chō 2 (東京・神田・小川町二)<REF> {{Showa10ad|Semi Kinka|68|November 1937|Asahi Camera}} </REF>.
  
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&times;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&times;6 folder by [[Nishida]].
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''See also [[Yamamoto Shashinki-ten]], a distributor that is maybe related.''
  
 
== 3&times;4 telescopic ==
 
== 3&times;4 telescopic ==

Revision as of 10:42, 9 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].

See also Yamamoto Shashinki-ten, a distributor that is maybe related.

3×4 telescopic

  • Kinka Lucky

4.5×6 folder

6×9 folder

  • Kinka Roll

6.5×9 plate folders

  • Kinka
  • Eliott

Notes

  1. The name Kinka is sometimes written 錦華, that roughly means "imperial flower".
  2. 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.

Links

  • At ksmt.com, mention here and here of the Weha Light