Fujita

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Contents 1 Fujita Kōgaku Kikai 1.1 Cameras equipped with a lens by Fujita Kōgaku Kikai 2 Fujita Kōgaku Kōgyō 3 Notes 4 Bibliography

Fujita Kōgaku Kikai

Fujita Kōgaku Kikai (藤田光学機械) was a lens maker mentioned in the "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Its lenses were mounted on various cameras.

Cameras equipped with a lens by Fujita Kōgaku Kikai

The following list of cameras is probably incomplete, and the inclusion of a model does not mean that all the versions were equipped with Fujita lenses:

• Arsen (Grimmel 50/4.5, three elements)^[1]
• Boltax and Bolty (Picner 40/4.5, three elements)^[2]
• Gelto (Grimmel 50/4.5 and 50/3.5, three elements)^[3]
• Semi Gelto (Grimmel 75/4.5 and 75/3.5, three elements)^[4]
• Gelto Six (Grimmel 75/3.5, three elements)^[5]
• Ostenflex (Grimmel 75/3.5, three elements)^[6]
• Baby Leotax (Rieze 50/3.5, three elements)^[7]
• Leotax (Letana 50/3.5, four elements)^[8]
• Picny (Picny 40/4.5, four elements)^[9]
• Weha Chrome Six (Enol 75/3.5, three elements)^[10]

Fujita Kōgaku Kōgyō

In 1957, a company called Fujita Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (藤田光学工業㈱) released the Fujita 66 SLR camera. This company also made 42mm screw lenses. It was probably the successor of Fujita Kōgaku Kikai, but this is unconfirmed.

The Excelsior 75/3.5 lenses mounted on some Aires Reflex and Airesflex are also attributed to a Fujita Kōgaku.

Notes

1. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens item Jc6.
2. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens item I5.
3. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Jb2 and Jc6.
4. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Lb6 and Lc10.
5. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Lb6.
6. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Lb6.
7. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Jb6.
8. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens items Jb11.
9. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens item I4.
10. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens item Lb17.

Bibliography

• Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
• "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.