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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,[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 may be 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, which 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