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Showa Leotax f |
 Version française |
Manufactured or assembled in Japan from 1956 to (After) 1956.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 5977
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Chronology of cameras Showa
Avec son disque de rappel de la sensibilité et du type de film utilisé fixé sur le bouton d'avancement/armement, cet exemplaire est une variante de Leotax F.
La monture au pas Leica M39 à vis permet d'utiliser d'autres objectifs que ceux de la marque.
In 1938, Mr. Kanzo Nagakawa found, in Tokyo, the Kyoei-Sha Company.
After Canon, this company was the most former to go into in the manufacturing of 35mm cameras
This same year it changed its name for SHOWA and started to produce pretty copies of Leica II, then III.then M!!!.
The war happened and for lack of raw materials, the factory idled in photography and its capacity was requisitioned for the effort of war.
Around 1942 Showa was confronted with a problem of Leitz patents. Involved in a lawsuit, it was obliged to separate the viewfinder and the rangefinder.
Very fortunately, the factory escaped the American bombardments and been able to start again a normal activity as early as 1946.
After the war, Showa manufactured also some folding camera 4.5 x 6 and some TLR 14 x 14 mm.
Particularly strong, technologically, the brand was the only one to venture on the lands of the Leica IIIg.with its magnificent “TV” .then of the “M”, with its superb “G” .which only remained experimental.
The company was named LEOTAX in 1956 and went bankrupt in 1961, just before the sales launch of the “G”.
The classification of LEOTAX models is very complex
Lenses of origin of the Letax was some Leotax, at the very beginning, then some of Topcor, Simlar or Fujinon. But, as for Nicca, some American stores left a total choice with its customers.
Possible causal relation, Topcor and Simlar are today very difficult to find.
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