{"id":757,"date":"2022-11-27T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=757"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:48:56","slug":"vintage-okaya-cameras","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/vintage-okaya-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Okaya Optic (Lord) cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vintage Okaya \/ Lord Cameras<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Okaya Optic K.K. was a camera company in Japanese city of Okaya, in the Nagano prefecture.&nbsp; Its full title was Okaya Kogaku Kikai K.K., where Kogaku = Engineering, Kikai = Machine, and K.K. is roughly equal to &#8216;Co Ltd&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Okaya Optic Lord 4D<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: c.1956<br>Country of origin: Japan<br>Rangefinder: Very efficient yellow central diamond<br>Meter: None<br>Shutter: Seikosha MXL<br>Speeds: B 1 second, 1\/2, 1\/5\/ 1\/10, 1\/25. 1\/50, 1\/100, 1\/250. 1\/500<br>Lens: Highkor 40mm, f\/2.8<br>Stops: 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16, 22<br>This is a very well-made and high-quality camera from a particularly obscure Japanese maker.&nbsp; The camera was imported into the US by Allied Impex&nbsp; Corp (AIC), famous for its involvement with Miranda cameras and Soligor lenses.&nbsp; It is doubtful if many of these cameras were imported into the UK, as import restrictions were in place until 1962, so few Japanese cameras were imported until then, by which time it seems like Okaya Optic had ceased camera manufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Okaya-Lord-4D.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"808\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Okaya-Lord-4D.jpg\" alt=\"Okaya Lord 4D\" class=\"wp-image-756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Okaya-Lord-4D.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Okaya-Lord-4D-300x242.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Okaya-Lord-4D-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Okaya Lord 4D<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Okaya \/ Lord Cameras Okaya Optic K.K. was a camera company in Japanese city of Okaya, in the Nagano prefecture.&nbsp; Its full title was Okaya Kogaku Kikai K.K., where Kogaku = Engineering, Kikai = Machine, and K.K. is roughly equal to &#8216;Co Ltd&#8217;. Okaya Optic Lord 4D Date: c.1956Country of origin: JapanRangefinder: Very efficient &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/vintage-okaya-cameras\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Okaya Optic (Lord) cameras<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}