{"id":210,"date":"2016-09-21T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:43:00","slug":"emi-k-spinney-lumica-oshiro-camera-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/emi-k-spinney-lumica-oshiro-camera-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Emi-K cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vintage Emi-K cameras (Oshiro)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Very little is known for sure about the Oshiro Optical Works and its cameras.  It seems that the company went bust and was bought by a Hong Kong company, probably some time in the early 1960s.  Cameras know to have been made by the company are the Emi-K, the Three-Cs, and the Spinney (all three are the same), the Emi-35A, and (possibly) the Lumica.  Although the Oshiro Optical Works is an obscure company, vintage Emi-K cameras are quite common – the Spinney and Three-Cs slight less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emi-K<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date: c.1956
Country of origin: Japan (Oshiro optical works)
Rangefinder: None
Meter: None
Shutter: Leaf.
Speeds: B 1\/25 1\/50 1\/100 1\/300
Lens: 3-element, Fujiyama Eminent Color 1:2.8 50mm.
Stops: 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16
Another hefty and solidly-built early Japanese camera.  Very basic, but very easy to use.  As the photo of the tram below shows, the lens falls off in performance towards the edges – in the camera’s defence I have to say the photo was a grab shot, using the setting of the previous frame, so it’s not bad really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This camera was also marketed as the ”Three Cs” and the “Spinney”, all with the same lens markings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vintage Emi-K camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Emi-K Sample Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vintage Emi-K cameras (Oshiro) Very little is known for sure about the Oshiro Optical Works and its cameras.  It seems that the company went bust and was bought by a Hong Kong company, probably some time in the early 1960s.  Cameras know to have been made by the company are the Emi-K, the Three-Cs, and … Continue reading Emi-K cameras<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}