Yasuhara
Yasuhara Co. Ltd. (安原製作所) was a small Japanese company (address Komazawa 1–17–17, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) that produced two rangefinder cameras, the Leica-thread-mount T981 or Isshiki (一式) and the fixed-lens (30mm f:2.8) T012 or Akizuki (秋月). It also produced a Yasuhara MC 50mm f:2.8 Leica thread mount lens. It was founded in 1998 and activity ended in 2004, after about four thousand T981 and several hundred T012 had been produced.
The T981 was also sold under the name Phenix, made in China by a company with the same name. There was a limited edition called Phenix JG50, sold with a collapsible Phenix MC 50mm f:2.8 lens.
Links
- Yasuhara's farewell message (in Japanese)
- Yasuhara's site in happier days (December 2003) as preserved at web.archive.org (mostly in Japanese)
- A site about Yasuhara at lomography.com, with pictures of the T981 and T012
- The Yasuhara, Yasuhara T981 and Phenix JG50 at Cameraquest
In Japanese:
- Yasuhara T981 chrome and black versions at Madam's Ichirizuka website
- The Yasuhara T981, with detailed repair pages at K. Fukushi's Rangefinder website
