Does Anyone Know About This Camera?

[antonandreas]

This is a very nice version of a camera I found online of a camera I won in a lot on ebay for a song.

This is the Green from Japan from around the WWII era and the little information I could gather is on camerapedia
and this page: http://ldtomei.googlepages.com/greencameraworksc1950

I bid on the lot because I glimpsed this camera, but I have no real idea of its condition. I am really excited to see this and all of the other cameras from the auction. Here is to hoping the Green and co. are not total duds!

 

[ZeissFan]

The body shape and lens door struts look very much like a Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 521/16. The viewfinder, however, is a different matter.

I'll bet this could be a nice little camera. Very unique, for sure.

 

[shadowfox]

That camera looks like a Welmy Six that I had before. In a nutshell, one of the probably thousands generic brand 6x6 folders coming from Japan after WWII.

FWIW, it's featured in one of my photo-journal entries with some pictures taken by it, to give you an idea of what to expect.

 

[hanskerensky]

One of the best specialist in the area of Japanese cameras from this timeperiod is surely Rebollo from France. You could try to contact him at Flickr :

http://www.flickr.com/people/rebollo_fr/

 

[oftheherd]

What an interesting camera when you end up getting it. Kudos for seeing and winning it. Be sure to let us know what condition it is in, and show some photos from it.