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Japanese Semi (4.5×6)
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The Semi Dak (セミダック) is a Japanese 4.5×6 box camera.

Description[]

The Semi Dak is inspired from the Kodak Baby Brownie, but it has a metal body and takes 4.5×6cm pictures on 120 film. It has a simple shutter and a fixed-focus meniscus lens engraved SEMIDAK and C.P.C.[1] The advance knob is on the left of the top plate and the folding finder on the middle. The camera has a curved film plate to compensate somewhat the lens aberrations.[2]

Date and attribution[]

Some sources say that the camera was released in 1947.[3] However the only original document reported so far is an article in the January 1949 issue of Ars Camera.[4] Sources also disagree on the distributor: some attribute the camera to Asahi Shōten (朝日商店) whereas another says Chūō Shashin-yōhin.[5] The C.P.C. marking on the lens could stand for Chuo Photo Company.

Notes[]

  1. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.354, says that the shutter has B and I settings, but no such control is visible on the camera pictures in Sugiyama, item 4175.
  2. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.354.
  3. Sugiyama, item 4175, and this page of the AJCC website.
  4. Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.354.
  5. Asahi Shōten: Sugiyama, item 4175, Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.354. Chūō Shashin-yōhin: this page of the AJCC website.

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