madNbad
Well-known
I thought it was kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErbKAWueD3g
Beemermark
Veteran
The Japanese government made it a requirement for sales out side of Japan. After WWII Japan had a reputation for shoddy goods (much like China in the 20th century). The sticker was "proof" that the Japanese government had inspected and approved the "quality".
Honestly, I can't believe that people lose sleep over things like this. Buy a Russian camera. No proof of quality control required.
Honestly, I can't believe that people lose sleep over things like this. Buy a Russian camera. No proof of quality control required.
kshapero
South Florida Man
No one is losing sleep. It just is wacky that the Passed stamp is right on the front prism.
Archiver
Veteran
Funny how this came up now, as I just saw this article a week or two ago:
https://www.mikeeckman.com/2020/03/kepplers-vault-58-jcii/
also this:
https://www.tanguayphotomag.biz/megapixel-camera/slr.html
To summarize, the Japan Camera Inspection Institute was created to help improve quality control in Japanese cameras after World War II, and improve marketability of Japanese goods overseas.
What's really intriguing is that JCII reorganized in the early 2000s and became the Camera and Imaging Products Association - CIPA. Yes, that CIPA rating you often read about for battery life etc.
My Dad's Minolta SR-T still has a JCII sticker, as does the Minolta MD W Rokkor 35mm f2.8 in his collection. Dad's lenses were kept in their original bags, and zip up lens cases, for many years until I started to use them in the mid 2000s. Now they have an entirely new lease of life on my Panasonic S5.
https://www.mikeeckman.com/2020/03/kepplers-vault-58-jcii/
also this:
https://www.tanguayphotomag.biz/megapixel-camera/slr.html
To summarize, the Japan Camera Inspection Institute was created to help improve quality control in Japanese cameras after World War II, and improve marketability of Japanese goods overseas.
What's really intriguing is that JCII reorganized in the early 2000s and became the Camera and Imaging Products Association - CIPA. Yes, that CIPA rating you often read about for battery life etc.
My Dad's Minolta SR-T still has a JCII sticker, as does the Minolta MD W Rokkor 35mm f2.8 in his collection. Dad's lenses were kept in their original bags, and zip up lens cases, for many years until I started to use them in the mid 2000s. Now they have an entirely new lease of life on my Panasonic S5.
Archiver
Veteran
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
The craziest place I ever saw a sticker was across the aperture ring of a Nikkor pre-AI lens. Being that the lens was made prior to 1972, the sticker was still there when I bought the lens (used) in the 1990’s.
kangaroo2012
Established
Nikon Historical Society of America had a meeting at JCII in Tokyo some years ago.
They have the greatest collection of every Japanese camera and most from everywhere else. We saw a collection of Nikon mockups and prototypes that would send Leicaphiles into a frenzy as Leica disposed of all theirs.
It is worth a visit just to see the museum.
Cheers
Philip
They have the greatest collection of every Japanese camera and most from everywhere else. We saw a collection of Nikon mockups and prototypes that would send Leicaphiles into a frenzy as Leica disposed of all theirs.
It is worth a visit just to see the museum.
Cheers
Philip
seany65
Well-known
What's wrong with these stickers? Lot's of things have QC stickers on, or at least they used to. It's not as if they add a lot of weight or spoil the ergonomics much.