The Kinusa Deluxe 1 is a classic of its kind: aperture adjustment using symbols, lead weight for a more serious appearance, Optical Color Lens Made in Japan, a guarantee of quality.

A small golden label, affixed under the sole, indicates "Made in Taiwan." One could easily mistake it for the famous "PASSED" stamp.

The lens is Auto Fix Focus. It's quite normal when there's no need for manual focusing; it's automatic.

Yunon Optical Company Limited was established in Pei Tou, a suburb of Taipei, in 1974. The Yunon brand for cameras and photographic equipment was registered in the United States in 1984.

In 1984, there were at least four major players in the American market for very inexpensive 35mm cameras. These were Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC), Yunon Optical Company, New Taiwan Photographic Corporation (Ouyama 1982), and A.V. Lavec (1978), which was initially a brand associated with the manufacture of kitchenware and utensils. While the cameras were all different, many of them shared the same lenses. This could suggest that either the lenses and shutters were made by a single company, or that components were made by one company and assembled by others, or that the cameras were manufactured on demand by one company and distributed by others.

The cameras are made of plastic. They sometimes roughly resemble SLRs, but the bulge of the hood houses no prism. The lack of credibility in lightweight is often compensated by the addition of lead weights in the lower part of the cameras. Film movement is manual.
The same model can be found under countless "brands," making it difficult to distinguish between brands and manufacturers.

Some people describe these cameras as toys, but they have superior specifications to many Instamatic cameras of the '70's and '80's ! 

At Yunon Optical, we can identify several types of cameras:

			markings on lens	# on lens
Metal fabrication	Penmax YN-3		New Penmax Color Optical Glass Lens F-45mm
Rangefinder design	Yunon YN 500		Yunon Optical Color Lens 1:6 f=50mm Series 746277	746277
Rangefinder design Wind lever	Yunon Super II		Yunon Optical Glass Lens 1:6 f=50mm Series 746277	746277
	YN-990		Optical Color Lens Auto Fix Focus 50mm Lens 1:6
	Royal-I		Optical Lens 50mm 1:6.3
SLR Design. Viewfinder aligned with the lens	Yunon Deluxe-I		Optical Color Lens Auto Fix Focus 50mm Lens 1:6 Made in Japan
	Kinusa Deluxe-I
	Yunon Deluxe-I
	Quartz Deluxe-I