Yes, the G.I.'s were buying a lot of cameras! So many that it actually kick
started the post war industry.
But the same observation holds true for the thirties as well.
All the '30's TLR's had Anglo-Teutonic names - like the 'Rollo-frex'! :-)
And I have a pre-war Arsen too (Like a 4x4 version of the Gelto but with more
arsen about). Not a Japanese character on it.
Andrew Fildes
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On 06/05/2013, at 12:55 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Just a wild guess but I think it might be from trying to maximize
> chances for acceptance on export products after the war.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 5/5/2013 7:28 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> Just had one of those thoughts.
>> I've seen plenty of Russian characters with the brand name in Cyrillic
>> script (KNEB anyone).
>> I've seen Chinese cameras with the name in either ideograms, Pin Yin (roman
>> syllables) or English - such as You Yi and Friendship
>> But I have never ever seen a Japanese characters with a brand name, company
>> name , lens name or shutter name in characters - not even the simplified
>> script (Kanji?)
>> The adverts seem to have the names in Japanese but not the machines.
>> Anyone got a reason for this?
>>
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> www.soultheft.com
>> Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
>>
>>
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