T.Y.O.W.

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The acronym T.Y.O.W. corresponds to a Japanese lens maker based in Tokyo, whose full name is currently unknown. It made Taiyo-Anastigmat barrel lenses for large format cameras. These are usually marked T.Y.O.W. TOKYO TAIYO–Anastigmat. The lens name certainly comes from the word taiyō (太陽), which means "sun" in Japanese.

List of known Taiyo-Anastigmat lenses:

  • 18cm f/4.5 (reported only)
  • 21cm f/4.5
  • 21cm f/6.3
  • 210/6.8 (reported only)

The Taiyo 180/4.5 and 210/4.5 were already existing in 1949.[1]

Notes

  1. Advertisement by Tachibana Shōkai in Photo Art December 1949, p.58, providing a list of used or old stock lenses.

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