Victor Vest

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Japanese Vest (4×5 and 4×6.5) (edit)
4×4.5	folding	Orient
4×5	folding	Minion
	collapsible	Alfax | Olympus Standard | Sakura (bakelite) | Well Standard
	unknown	Vesten
4×6.5	folding	Clover Vest | Dianette | Eagle | Friend | Kooa | National | Nifcarette | Pearlette | B Pearlette | Special Pearlette | Pionette | Pocket Prince | Sirius Bebe | Speed Pocket | Tsubasa Spring | Victory
	rigid or collapsible	Vest Adler | Vest Alex | Kowa Kid | Light | Baby Minolta | Minolta Vest | Regal Olympic | Vest Olympic | Tsubasa Chrome
	box	Baby Clover | Sakura (box) | Spirit
	unknown	Victor Vest
unknown		Meiro
Japanese 3×4 and 4×4, 4.5×6, 6×6 and 6×9 ->

The Victor Vest (ビクターベスト) is a Japanese camera, about which almost nothing is known. It is only mentioned in the official list of set prices compiled in October 1940 and published in January 1941.^[1] The camera is placed in the same price category as the Baby Minolta and Sakura, at ¥10. This, together with the name Victor Vest, suggests that the camera is 4×6.5 format. It was perhaps related to the Victor folders, made by Motodori.

Notes

1. ↑ "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku", type 2, section 1.

Bibliography

• "Kokusan shashinki no kōtei kakaku" (国産写真機の公定価格, Set prices of the Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of October 25, 1940 and setting the retail prices from December 10, 1940. Published in Asahi Camera January 1941 and reproduced in 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. Pp. 108–9. Type 2, section 1.

This camera is not listed in Sugiyama nor in Kokusan kamera no rekishi.