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The 1950s and 1950s was the era of the rise of Japanese cameras and the development of paraxial cameras from a leather cavity machine to an all-metal fuselage. Before World War II, paraxial cameras were mainly skin-cavity folding cameras, when German cameras dominated the camera world, while Japanese cameras were still unknown.

However, the German camera industry was badly hit in the historical event of the division of Germany, which brought opportunities for the development of the camera industry in Japan. The first period for the development of Japanese cameras was the metal side axis period from the 1950s to the mid-1960s. During this period, not only the advanced side axes such as Nikon and Canon mentioned earlier appeared, but also many inter-lens shutter cameras with irreplaceable lenses appeared.

In a word, in the 1950s, with the gradual development of the SLR, the camera industry in Japan mainly focused on the side axis.

Today's very Leica camera is an inter-mirror shutter camera launched by Konica in 1958. The lenses are divided into 48pm 2 and 50max 1.8, which are non-replaceable. It is also equipped with the advanced wireframe technology at that time, which can correct the parallax.

This camera is full of materials, which weighs as much as 800 grams, and its film passing method is also very special, setting up the left hand pressing method.

Konica, who used to be called Xiao Xi Liu, began to make metal 135 side-axis cameras in 1948 after the war. Three generations of metal side shafts were developed in less than 10 years.

Konica's metal side shaft in the 1950s basically continued the design idea of the pre-war skin cavity machine, but eliminated the skin cavity design, changed to an integrated metal fuselage, and was equipped with a ranging system. The camera shape not only refers to the German camera, but also has some of its own characteristics.

After the KONICA III series, Konica is still developing the mirror shutter side shaft, such as the famous AUTO S2.

Minolta also produced metal side shafts during this period, and this is the pinnacle of Minolta's era, the 35IIB, an L39 interchangeable lens camera.

Minolta developed the MINOLTA 35 camera in 1948, which is actually an imitation of Leica. At first, Minolta planned to design 10 different sizes of lenses. In the 1950s, imitation Leica was once popular. The most prominent Japanese imitation of Leica is Canon, like NICCA is also a good imitation. Minolta began to develop SLRs in the 1950s, and their product line of paraxial cameras is not rich.

Minolta launched the 35IIB in 1958, adding a popular film wrench to further enhance the camera's sense of operation. But this series of camera shutters are 2 disks, which have not been unified yet.

Minolta has always had the feelings of Leica, and in the 1970s it co-developed the CL camera with Leica.

Originally known as Bazhou Optical Industry, YASHICA also began to produce cameras after the war, starting with the side axis. Later, YASHICA had a quite famous Electronic 35 series, which originated in the 1950s.

The image above shows the YASHICA 35 camera launched by YASHICA in 1958. Like many metal cameras at that time, there are two lens versions: 45Accord 2.8 and 45ram 1.9. 2.8is a popular version and 1.9is a high-end version. The camera can't change the lens and operates the shutter between the lenses. This configuration is common in German cameras such as Flenda and Zeiss Ikon.

Compared with Minolta IIIA, it still uses traditional viewfinder, which has a high magnification of 0.5.

This brand, called AIRES, has been introduced in the past. It was founded in 1949 and closed in 1960. It was founded by the Korean people in Japan.

Production of an inter-mirror shutter camera imitating the appearance of Leica began in 1954, and bright wireframe technology was developed at that time. Among them, the AIRES III camera is a relatively complete camera with simple appearance and complete function, and it launched the same type of products earlier than Konica.

At a later stage, they even launched a 35V camera that looked like Leica.

In fact, AIRES is also a technology-flow company, launching cameras in pursuit of stylish performance. However, the company was too small, and a hundred camera brands were released at that time, so they didn't stick to it in the end.

TOPCON, which was later known as a SLR, also made metal side shafts at that time, and their 35S and 35L were all famous products.

Like other manufacturers, this type of camera from TOPCON largely refers to the elements of the German camera design, while the operation is still an inter-mirror shutter.

In the process of producing the side shaft, TOPCON also began the research of DSLR.

During this period, Ricoh also launched this kind of camera, the most famous of which is the Ricoh 35deluxe, which sets up a film-passing mechanism under the lens, which is an attempt to pass the film quickly.

In addition, there were many kinds of Japanese metal side-axis cameras in that era.

In Germany at the same time, various manufacturers were hit by the division of Germany, Leica had to continue to produce pre-war III and II cameras, West German Zeiss lost its high hopes for 135SLR systems and had to build contax II and contax III instead. Among German brands, Flenda is particularly active at this stage and has launched a lot of classic cameras. Leica ushered in about 10 years of explosion and glory after the launch of the M system, until the rise of the SLR in the mid-1960s.

At that time, this metal-mirror shutter camera, or imitation of the German replaceable lens side shaft, was the mainstream camera of Japanese manufacturers at that time. Although there were many DSLRs in the 1950s, the real popularity of DSLRs will not be available until after the 1960s.

This kind of camera has a simple structure, more or less the same operation, and the homogenization is very serious. Therefore, in this era, a number of camera manufacturers rise and perish rapidly.

The body of this kind of camera is large, so the volume is very heavy, and the material is solid. Another feature is that they tend to use lenses with a larger aperture.

The metal side axis did not die out with the advent of the SLR era, but evolved. The evolution of this kind of camera is basically miniaturization, electronic route, some of the more radical routes even directly cancel the manual exposure function.

This article is from the official Wechat account: film fan club (ID:jiaojuanmi), author: Shanghai Old dirty Turtle

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