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* [http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/987/2006-05-09-1 Plate folder], perhaps a Kinka, at the [http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/987/ Monomono blog]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 20:33, 6 January 2008

Yamamoto Shashinki Kōsakusho (山本写真機工作所) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo before World War II. It was already active in 1932, and made a spy camera taking 4.5×6cm plates perhaps called Egorette, certainly a copy of the Ergo. Its address at the time was Kanda-ku Ogawa-chō 1 (神田区小川町1) in Tokyo.[1] In 1937 it was Kanda-ku Ogawa-chō 2–14, Hijiribashi-dōri (神田区小川町2–14聖橋通).[2] It made a series of cameras called Kinka (written 錦華 and roughly meaning "imperial flower").

See also Yamamoto Shashinki-ten, a distributor based in Osaka which is probably not related.

Rollfilm cameras

3×4 telescopic

4.5×6 folder

6×9 folder

Plate cameras

4.5×6 spy

6.5×9 folders

The Elliotte plate folders are attributed to Yamamoto by one source, but this is unconfirmed.[3]

Notes

  1. Advertisement in Asahi Camera June 1932, p.A39.
  2. Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.67.
  3. Attribution in Lewis, p.47.

Bibliography