Japanese WWII Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera Variant A1
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Japanese WWII Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera Variant A1.
Great Condition and an amazing conversation piece!! If you have vintage cameras add the ultimate one to your collection!!!Rarest lens on this model, as well as "gun site". serial #1237GOOD LUCK!!!
Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopediaThe Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera (15cm) (九九式航空写真機十五糎) was produced for the Japanese Navy by Rokuoh-sha (六桜社) ) / K...onishiroku) (小西六) and also by Fuji Shashin Film (富士寫眞フィルム株式會社)[1][2] As was usual practice with the Japanese military ordnance of the time, the name "type 99" stands for year 2599 in the Japanese imperial calendar, i.e. 1939, and signals the year the Japanese military issued the type specification. It was the smaller of the Japanese Navy's aerial cameras and mainly used for hand-held, oblique shots taken from reconnaissance planes.
The total number of cameras produced is unknown at this point in time. A report from the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan, written in December 1945, gives detailed production figures, they refer to the Konishiroku-built Navy Type 99 Handheld Aerial Cameras only (Table 1). The total production was higher, as the numbers of cameras made by Fuji are unknown. A Japanese source claims that the introduction of the camera was plagued with reliability problems, and it only went in full service around 1943.[3] This seems to be borne out by the statistics provided in the U.S. report that show that production started in 1942 and was ramped up in 1943, peaking in 1944. The dramatic drop of actual deliveries compared or orders in 1945 shows the impact of the Allied bombing on specialised camera production
.MORE INFORMATION on: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Type_99_Handheld_Aerial_Camera
Great Condition and an amazing conversation piece!! If you have vintage cameras add the ultimate one to your collection!!!Rarest lens on this model, as well as "gun site". serial #1237GOOD LUCK!!!
Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopediaThe Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera (15cm) (九九式航空写真機十五糎) was produced for the Japanese Navy by Rokuoh-sha (六桜社) ) / K...onishiroku) (小西六) and also by Fuji Shashin Film (富士寫眞フィルム株式會社)[1][2] As was usual practice with the Japanese military ordnance of the time, the name "type 99" stands for year 2599 in the Japanese imperial calendar, i.e. 1939, and signals the year the Japanese military issued the type specification. It was the smaller of the Japanese Navy's aerial cameras and mainly used for hand-held, oblique shots taken from reconnaissance planes.
The total number of cameras produced is unknown at this point in time. A report from the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan, written in December 1945, gives detailed production figures, they refer to the Konishiroku-built Navy Type 99 Handheld Aerial Cameras only (Table 1). The total production was higher, as the numbers of cameras made by Fuji are unknown. A Japanese source claims that the introduction of the camera was plagued with reliability problems, and it only went in full service around 1943.[3] This seems to be borne out by the statistics provided in the U.S. report that show that production started in 1942 and was ramped up in 1943, peaking in 1944. The dramatic drop of actual deliveries compared or orders in 1945 shows the impact of the Allied bombing on specialised camera production
.MORE INFORMATION on: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Type_99_Handheld_Aerial_Camera
