Taron

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The Japanese company that would become Taron was founded as Nippon Kōsokki. In 1943 it was called Nippon Kōsokki Seisakusho (日本光測機製作所) and based in Tokyo, Omori.^[1]

After the war it was called Nippon Kōsokki Kōgyō K.K. (日本光測機工業㈱) and made the Taron cameras. It was still based in Tokyo, Omori.^[2] The company was renamed K.K. Taron (㈱タロン) after its own products in 1959.^[3]

Contents 1 Camera list 1.1 35mm half-frame 1.2 35mm viewfinder 1.3 35mm rangefinder 1.4 6×6 TLR 2 Cameras equipped with a lens by Nippon Kōsokki 3 Notes 4 Bibliography 5 Links

Camera list

35mm half-frame

• Chic

35mm viewfinder

• JL

35mm rangefinder

• Taron 35/Fodor 35

• Taron 35 II
• Taron 35 III aka MX
• Eyemax
• Marquis
• VR
• PR
• RR
• Eye
• Supra
• Amica Eyelux

6×6 TLR

• Taroflex

Cameras equipped with a lens by Nippon Kōsokki

• Roico (Roico Anastigmat 60mm f/3.5, three elements)^[4]

Notes

1. ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Ōmori-ku Ōmori 4–51 (東京都大森区大森4–51). Source: "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
2. ↑ Its address from 1955 to 1962 was Tōkyō-to Ōta-ku Ōmori 4–45 (東京都大田区大森4–45). Source: advertisements dated 1955 to 1962 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 147 and 253–5.
3. ↑ Advertisement dated May 1959 with Nippon Kōsokki and advertisement dated November 1959 with Taron, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 254.
4. ↑ "Inquiry into Japanese cameras" ("Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa"), lens item K7.

Bibliography

• 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.
• "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp. 180–7.

Links

In Japanese:

• Camera stories 4: Taron at Japan Family Camera
• Taron PR rangefinder at nifty.com

In French / English

• Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr