Mysterious Camera Quizz

Abbazz

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A few days ago, I posted this link to an interesting page about the March 2005 meeting of the Nikon Kenkyukai Tokyo (Tokyo Nikon Society). RFF member Cale Arthur asked about one camera pictured on a few photographs of the meeting, but nobody seemed to know what camera it was.

Since I posted this message, I have been looking for this camera, which I find particularly attractive. The brand does not appear on any photo posted on the Japanese page. Its lens seems to be quite small, so it could be a half-format (18x24mm) camera. It reminds me of a Steinheil Casca II or a Ducati.

Here are the pictures of this mysterious camera:

Mystery1.jpg

Mystery2.jpg

Mystery3.jpg

Does anybody know the name of this mysterious camera?

Cheers,

Abbazz
 
Sorry Ira, but this is all I could get from the Japanese webpage.

As it is a Japanese camera collectors group, it must be a Japanese camera. Maybe a prototype?

Cheers,

Abbazz
 
I found the answer on the Nikon Kenkyukai Tokyo web page itself. It was not obvious that the comment refered to this particular camera, which appears to be a Goldeck 16, a subminiature made by Gerhard Goldammer of Frankfurt in the early 1960s.

Here is a link. It doesn't seem so scarce, as there are a few samples for sale on eBay. But I won't buy one, I am not very fond of subminiature and so-called "spy" cameras.

Cheers,

Abbazz
 
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