Muggins
Junk magnet
Interesting, Mr Fallis. Perhaps I'll leave the lens on my Perle well alone when (if...) I ever get round to sorting it out...
An interesting aside on post-war Japanese cameras. Kit from the land of the rising sun had been viewed with quite a bit of suspicion pre-war in Britain, and it was just about unattainable post-war for a number of years. In fact Wallace Heaton's (allegedly the best photographic supplier in the country) "Blue Book" made a comment along the lines of "we have received good reports for some years from the USA and Germany regarding the quality of Japanese cameras. However we have not taken this at face value, and have only included those items that we have tested ourselves"...
This was 1960 - a year after Nikon launched the first F...
Adrian
An interesting aside on post-war Japanese cameras. Kit from the land of the rising sun had been viewed with quite a bit of suspicion pre-war in Britain, and it was just about unattainable post-war for a number of years. In fact Wallace Heaton's (allegedly the best photographic supplier in the country) "Blue Book" made a comment along the lines of "we have received good reports for some years from the USA and Germany regarding the quality of Japanese cameras. However we have not taken this at face value, and have only included those items that we have tested ourselves"...
This was 1960 - a year after Nikon launched the first F...
Adrian
oftheherd
Veteran
For several years after WWII the Japanese retained their pre-war reputation of making bad imitations of things. It might have been true for a year of two, but certainly they quickly began attaining a much higher reputation. I recall hearing that pre-war they manufactured some export items in an area named Usa and marked them "Made in USA." I never saw that in writing.