Yasuhara

Yasuhara Co. Ltd. (安原製作所, Yasuhara Seisakusho) was a small Japanese company that between 1998 and 2004 produced two rangefinder cameras, the Leica-thread-mount T981 or Isshiki (一式) and the fixed-lens T012 or Akizuki (秋月).

Yasuhara was founded by Mr Yasuhara (安原伸) in November 1988, and described itself as "in scale, the world's smallest camera maker" (kibo-teki ni, sekai-saishō kamera meekaa).

Yasuhara also produced a Yasuhara MC 50mm f:2.8 Leica thread mount lens.

Yasuhara's address was Komazawa 1–17–17, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.

Links

• Yasuhara's farewell message (in Japanese)
• Yasuhara's site (December 2003) as last saved by web.archive.org before the announcement of closure: mostly in Japanese (set your browser to Shift-JIS)
  • Yasuhara's company profile
  • Yasuhara lens
• A site about Yasuhara at lomography.com, with pictures of the T981 and T012
• Wikipedia article (in Japanese)