[nikomat:18190] Re: RICOH SINGLEX and etc.

[TANABE Hayao <tanabe@strl.nhk.or.jp>]

たなべです。

おお、素晴らしい資料ですね。初めて見ました。
シアーズＳＬ１１ですか。タワーブランドではないんですね。
これでまた集める目標が一つ出来ました。

メーターは当時のミノルタのものに似ていますね。
マミヤのプリズマット用のものはペンタの上にかぶせる形のもっと
違った形のものでした。


At 2:26 PM +0900 98.5.6, HIURA Shinsaku wrote:
> ひう瘢雹ら＠きょう瘢雹だいです。
> 
> たなべさんに送っていただいた、NIKKOREX SEKOR の写真を
> HP に掲載しておりましたら、海外の方がそれに反応して
> メールを送って来られました。
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 23:08:41 -0500
> To: shinsaku@vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> From: Rick Housh <rhoush@m2.sprynet.com>
> Subject: Nikkorex Sekor f=35 1:2,8
> 
> I hope you will pardon me for writing in English, and that you can
> understand it.  I understand no Japanese.
> 
> I thank you very much for including a photograph of the lens described
> above.  I have had one of these for about 15 years and have been unable to
> discover anything about it.  The serial number of my lens is 842099.

> 
> The lens appears to have been manufactured by Mamiya.  Do you know if that
> is correct?  Our references here in the United States say that, although
> Nikkorex bodies were manufactured by Mamiya, all Nikon lenses have always
> been manufactured by Nikon.
> 
> Do you have any further information about this?  If so, I would greatly
> appreciate you telling me anything you can.  I certainly do appreciate the
> Nikomat site and thank you very much for the work you obviously have put
> into it.  I also own a Nikomat FTN camera, in addition to a Nikkormat FTN
> and a Nikkormat EL.
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> このレンズ持ってる！！しかし情報がなくて、・瘢雹・瘢雹という瘢雹こと
> らしいです。
> で、eBay の売り物、それと RICOH SINGLEX のことを教えてあげたら、
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> Thank you very much for the reply.  Your English is very good.  It is I who
> should apologize for not being able to write in Japanese.
> 
> I looked at the E-Bay site at both the Nikkorex lens and the Ricoh Singlex.
> 
> It was very interesting to me because in 1963 I owned a Ricoh Singlex, and
> thought it was a very fine camera.  I did not know it was manufactured by
> Mamiya.
> 
> I am certain the same camera was also sold by Sears, Roebuck Company, a
> large department store in the U.S.A. as the "Sears 11."  The Ricoh had a
> clip-on meter which I did not purchase with the camera and later I bought
> one for the Sears 11 which fit and worked very well on the Ricoh Singlex.
> 
> I don't have the camera or meter now but I still have the instruction
> manual for the meter, which I have scanned and attached for your interest.
> You can see from the photo of the Sears 11 camera that it is identical to
> the Ricoh Singlex, and probably also to the Nikkorex.  It is difficult to
> read the inscription on the scanned image, but it clearly says "Ricoh
> f=55mm 1:1.4" on the lens in the photo.
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> という瘢雹わけで、RICOH SINGLEX は昔持ってた・瘢雹・瘢雹と。
> で、同じよう瘢雹なカメラがアメリカの Sears へ OEM されてたらしい。
> それ用の露出計を買って SINGLEX につけたらばっちりだったと。
> 同じものではないかという瘢雹ことです。
> 
> この "Sears 11" 用外部露出計（NIKKOREX meter とは、かなりちがう瘢雹）
> のマニュアルの画像データ送ってもらったので、それを HP に載せます。
> 見たところ、シャッター速度には連動するが、絞りには連動しない
> みたいです。
> 
> HP の NIKKOREX SEKOR のあたりに載せています。
> どう瘢雹ぞごらんください。