Camera-SE1 戦前のドイツBaldaxのコピー品蛇腹カメラ LICHT 1:3.5 f=60mm(SEIKOSHA製)
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型番： LICHT(SEIKOSHA製)
レンズ Tokyo Kogaku F3.5 f=60mm
シャッター SEIKOSHA LICHT エバーレディ1/25，1/50，1/100、B,T
露出計 なし（F4.5?22)
対応フィルム 4.5cm x 6cm
発売 1937年
戦前に栗林写真機械製作所（ファーストカメラ製作所）が生産し、皆川商店により販売された。
ドイツのBaldaxのコピーとされる。
Camera-wikiの記述によれば、この個体はファインダー形状から後期型と考えられる。
当時の価格は53円だった。
小型反射ファインダが装着された型式も存在した。以下の写真は初期型のModelIIと考えられる。
Rare early 1940s Minion folding camera with black body, unusual 4 x 5 format, by Tokyo Kogaku with 6 cm 1:3.5 lens, Made in Japan. It takes 4 x 5 cm photos on 127 film. It has a LICHT shutter made by Seikosha (developed in 1935) and comes with a take-up spool and brown leather case. This camera is the black finish model and appears to be the fourth auto-stop variant of the Minion camera, since it has a Galilean viewfinder. A yellow exposure table with Japanese and Arabic numerals is secured to the back with four screws and a tripod screw is attached to the bottom. The leather case has an attached strap and a flap window on the back to view the exposure table. SEE CONDITION SECTION BELOW.
Markings on the camera are as follows:
- Front of Lens: 1:3.5 f=6cm Tokyo Kogaku No. 39699 Toko
- On Shutter Plate: LICHT SEIKOSHA
The back of the camera has a red window protected by a vertically sliding cover to set the first exposure. NOTE: The previous owner of this camera removed the exposure table and cut out an additional round window through the black covering to view the advancement of the film, cutting a section of the exposure table in order to fit around the circle. However, the wrong side was cut so that when the exposure table was reattached to the camera it was upside down. Outside dimensions of case (approx.): 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.
camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/minion describes the camera as follows: "The Minion models are horizontal folders, with straight diagonal struts and a folding optical finder. None has a body release. The 127 film paper backing is not marked for the unusual 4×5cm format, and all the Minion variants have an exposure counter, manual or automatic. (Ten exposures can be taken per roll.) Film is loaded through the top plate, opened by a button on the right of the top plate. It is thus possible to load a roll of film with the camera standing in its case. . . . The front leather is faintly embossed Minion on some examples but not all (no pattern has been identified)." This description matches the camera listed here.
According to camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/minion: Modern sources do not agree on the distinguishing features of models I and II, and the original documents observed so far do not clearly describe them. It seems that the modifications were introduced gradually rather than all at once, and this makes the evolution of the camera quite difficult to follow. The main change that occurred during the production is the adoption of auto-stop film advance, which seems to have been simultaneous with the introduction of a chrome finish version.
The Minion I and II have a Toko 6cm f/3.5 triplet lens made by T?ky? K?gaku and a Licht shutter made by Seik?sha, giving T, B, 25, 50, 100 speeds and equipped with a self-timer. The shutter plate is marked LICHT at the top and SEIKOSHA at the bottom. The back has a single red window, protected by a vertically sliding cover, to set the first exposure, and an exposure table written in Japanese and attached by four screws.
The first manual variant was released in Spring 1938. It was featured in the new products column of the June 1938 issue of Asahi Camera and was advertised in the same magazine from April of the same year. There is no automatic stop advance. A small housing at the left end of the top plate contains a manual exposure counter, visible through a hole in the top. The first exposure is set via the red window and the film is advanced by manually turning the knob until the next number is displayed. This advance system is obviously not very reliable. The front part of the viewfinder is engraved Minion and folds above the rear part. In the April 1938 advertisement, the camera is touted as having a new feeling, a new size (presumably negative size) and new lens. The advertiser is named as T?ky? K?gaku Kikai. In May and June, Hattori Tokei-ten Shashinki-bu is named as the distributor, a price of \58 is specified, and the lens is described as fast rather than new, the light weight of 320g is touted, as is the ability to change films while the camera is still in its ever-ready case. A single surviving example is known so far, pictured in Antonetto and Russo and in Fujishima. Its focal length is engraved 6,0cm instead of 6cm as found on all the later cameras.
The second manual variant has a newer viewfinder: the rear part folds above the front part and it is spring loaded with a release button situated on the right. This variant may have been introduced in 1939: the Minion was featured again in the new products column of the May 1939 issue of Asahi Camera and was advertised in the same magazine from April 1939 after a ten-month interruption. This variant is pictured in the advertisement in Asahi Camera September 1939,[8] where the Minion is offered for \70, in black finish only. The finder is described as 'Newton type,' and a circular depression is visible in the rear folding part. A surviving example is pictured in this page at Cam's. Its back exposure table is black and its red window cover has no marking. Another example is pictured in Sugiyama as a 'Minion II.' The auto-stop feature was probably added at the end of 1939: a variant equipped with this feature appeared in the new products column of the November 1939 issue of Asahi Camera and was advertised in the same magazine from October 1939.
The first auto-stop variant has the exposure counter disc on top of the small housing on the left of the top plate and a small button at the rear to unlock the film advance. No other modification is visible: the finder is still of the Newton type, has the same circular depression to the rear and still has its release button to the right. An example is pictured as a 'black Minion I' in this page of the Topcon Club website. The second auto-stop variant has a thicker focusing ring sporting bigger numbers; it seems that the folding struts were slightly reinforced at about the same time. An example in chrome finish is pictured in this page at Asacame.
This variant is pictured in chrome finish in the November 1939 advertisement in Asahi Camera. The camera was available in black finish for \83 and in chrome finish for \93. Another advertisement dated December 1939 shows an older picture of the first auto-stop variant in black finish, and gives the same list of features and prices. Both advertisements simply say Chrome Minion and Black Minion, not 'Minion II.'
The third auto-stop variant has the finder's release button moved to the front. The finder at first remained the Newton type, with a circular depression in the rear folding part instead of the square frame of the later Galilean finder. This model has a white exposure table and the T?ky? K?gaku logo on the red window cover; these features of the back probably applies to the previous auto-stop variants as well, but no description or picture has yet been found to confirm or refute this. An example is pictured as a 'black Minion II' in this page of the Topcon Club website, and another is pictured as a 'Minion I' in Sugiyama. This variant is also pictured in the instruction manual reproduced in Nekosan's website.
The fourth auto-stop variant has a Galilean viewfinder, only recognizable by the square frame in the rear folding part, holding an additional optical element."
For additional websites, see camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/minion.
Also see http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Tokyo-Kogaku/Minion-II.html
CONDITION: THE CAMERA HAS NOT BEEN TESTED. It looks intact, except for the modification mentioned above. The bellows are also intact showing minimal wear around the corners. Folding the lens back into the camera requires slight downward pressure on the release in order for the cover to lock in place. The camera needs cleaning. SOLD AS IS. The brown leather case is in very good condition, except for the front flap having split along the bottom, a common occurrence in leather camera cases of this design.
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