Talk:Ehira Six and Astoria Super Six

Note by Don@Eastwestphoto- In my observation it's hard to believe this is a November 1949 Camera. The lens is Uncoated Lausar 85mm F:3,5 Nr. 10546 a good 4 element Tessar copy and it's 10 aperture blades are marked in old metric f-stops 3.5,4.5,6.3,9,12.5,16. The 120 roll film spool ends have alignment arrow, spring loaded turning locking ends also. The scale focusing optical front cell is marked in Meters! There is no self timer or ASA Kodak flash contact. Simply stated this is NOT the construction techniques of a 1949 Post war camera at all! Either it was made from parts or was a design of pre-war that was very slow to come to market, after WW2. When it did make it to market it was already Obsolete by post war Japanese cameras manufacturers standards and D.O.A. in the marketplace. Sugiyama stated the rarity of this camera at four stars ****. Why wasn't this camera marked MIOJ as per Scapin 1535 order? The camera weighs in at 906.8g or 2 lbs. I believe that the rangefinder is the horizontal wedge moving system and not the rotating type used by Zeiss it its Super Ikonta B, from which this camera looks like a direct copy? I base my observation on my actual example and conclude the camera was designed and built years before it actually came to the 1949 camera market, and was a failure.

Don, notes like these are very valuable, but should be placed on the talk page that accompanies each entry one can then look at what info should be corrected and how to best incorporate it. Please keep up the good work, and keep adding info like this on talk pages. Dirk--Heritagefutures (talk) 16:12, 24 February 2014 (PST)