Taniyama Camera Kōgyō K.K. (谷山カメラ工業㈱) was a Japanese manufacturer based in Osaka. It made the Tanyflex 6×6 SLR in 1950–1 and it also made view cameras at least until the mid-1950s. Its address in 1950 and 1951 was Ōsaka-shi Naniwa-ku Mabuchi-chō 23 (大阪市浪速区馬淵町23).^[1] Its logo was the name TANY inside a concave lens element, itself surrounded by two smaller convex elements above and below.^[2]

Camera list Edit

• Tanyflex (6×6cm SLR, 1950–1)
• Tany Speed View (6×9cm view camera, 1956)^[3]

Notes Edit

1. ↑ Source: advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 146.
2. ↑ Logo visible in the advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 146.
3. ↑ Sugiyama, item 6082.

Bibliography Edit

• 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.
• Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), ISBN 0-935398-16-3 (hard). P. 71.
• 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 6082.