Template:127 Japan The Kinsi (キンシ)[1] is a 3×4 strut folding camera that was sold by Riken between 1941 and 1943. According to this page of the Ricoh official website, it was made by another company. The Kinsi was certainly inspired by the Dolly 3×4 camera made by the German company Certo[2].
The Kinsi had a folding optical finder, a Kinsi Anastigmat 50/4.5 triplet lens with front cell focusing and a Licht T, B, 25-50-100 shutter made by Seikosha. A funny characteristic of the Licht shutter is explained on this page by nekosan.
A 1942 ad (see here, from the 18 Nov. 1942 issue of Asahi Graph) offered the Kinsi, called Kinsi I, for ¥56.80.
A Semi Kinsi, name variant of the Semi Olympic, has been observed at a Yahoo Japan auction, and is covered in the Olympic page.
Notes
- ↑ The name Kinsi (pronounced kinshi) can be written 金鵄, then meaning "golden eagle". It all the advertisements observed, it is written in katakana: キンシ.
- ↑ This page of the Ricoh official website say that the Kinsi was a copy of the Zeh Goldi, that is obviously not true, the Goldi being of the folding bed type. This page of the Asacame site say that it is a copy of the Dolly.
Links
In Japanese:
- Kinsi in the film camera list at the Ricoh official website
- Riken 127 cameras and A-Z 127 film cameras at Asacame, with the Kinsi on this page
- Prewar Japanese 127 camera page including the Kinsi, and a page about a funny characteristic of the Licht shutter at Nekosan's site
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| Asahi Bussan and Riken prewar and wartime cameras () | ||
|---|---|---|
| rigid or collapsible | ||
| Vest Adler | Gokoku | Semi Kinsi | Letix | Olympic | New Olympic | Regal Olympic | Semi Olympic | Super Olympic | Vest Olympic | Riken No.1 | Ricohl | Roico | Seica | Zessan | ||
| folders | pseudo TLR | TLR |
| Semi Adler | Adler III | Adler A | Adler B | Adler C | Adler Four | Adler Six | Gaica | Heil | Kinsi | Chukon Ref | Ricohflex | Ricohflex B |