Dia Six

Japanese Six (6×6)

Postwar models (edit)
folding
Aires Viceroy \| Angel Six \| Aram Six \| Astoria Super Six \| Atom Six \| Balm Six \| Baron \| Beauty Six (1950) \| Beauty Six (1953) \| Calm Six \| Carl Six \| Centre Six \| Crown \| Crystar Six \| Daido Six \| Dorima Six \| Doris Six \| Ehira Six \| Elbow Six \| First Six \| Flora Six \| Fodor Six \| Frank Six \| Fujica Six \| Super Fujica Six \| Futami Six \| Gotex \| Grace Six \| Kohken Chrome Six \| Kyowa Six \| Liner Six \| Lyra Six \| Mamiya Six \| Middl Six \| Mihama Six \| Mine Six \| Minon Six \| Mizuho Six \| Motoka Six \| Mount Six \| Muse Six \| Super Naiku \| Ofuna Six \| Olympus Six \| Olympus Chrome Six \| Orion Six \| Oscar Six \| Pigeon Six \| Planet \| Please Six \| Pluto Six \| Poppy Six \| Press Van \| Proud Chrome Six \| Proud Super Six \| Renown Six \| Ricoh Six \| Ruvikon \| Ruvinal \| Sanon Six \| Silver Six \| Sisley 1 \| Sisley 2 & 3 \| Sister Six \| Tenar Six \| Toho Six \| Tomic \| Toyoca Six \| Ugein Six \| Wagen Six \| Walcon 6 \| Welmy Six \| Wester \| Windsor Six
rigid or collapsible
Dia Six \| Ehira Chrome Six \| Enon Six \| Flora \| Flashline \| Fujipet \| Harmony \| Mikono-6 \| Orion \| Ponix \| Rich-Ray-6 \| Shumy \| Weha Chrome Six
Japanese 6×6 TLR, pseudo TLR and medium format SLR ->
Japanese Semi (4.5×6) and older 6×9 ->

The Dia Six is a Japanese inexpensive 6×6 camera. It was made in the 1950s, ostensibly by Dia Optical Co., Ltd. It is only known from an entry in Sugiyama.^[1]

Description[]

The Dia Six has a rounded body. The advance knob is at the top left and the rest of the top plate is covered by a housing containing the viewfinder and supporting an accessory shoe on the right. The front of the body is covered by a U-shaped metal plate.

The lens is fixed-focus and is marked DIANA 55mm and DIA OPT. WORKS. Despite the lens name, the camera is certainly unrelated to the well-known Diana. The shutter gives B, 25–100 speeds and has a PC synch post at the bottom.^[2] The release lever is on the side of the shutter housing. The shutter plate is written Dia Six at the top and DIA OPTICAL CO. LTD. at the bottom.

Notes[]

↑ Sugiyama, item 4122.
↑ Speeds reported by Sugiyama, item 4122.

Bibliography[]

Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5. Item 4122.

[1] Sugiyama, item 4122.

[2] Speeds reported by Sugiyama, item 4122.

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