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Oriental Japan Large Format Field Camera-1919

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Oriental Japan Large Format Field Camera

Oriental Shashin Kōgyō K.K. (オリエンタル写真工業株式会社, Oriental Photo Industrial Co., Ltd.) was a Japanese film maker founded in 1919. It used the Orient, Peacock and OK trademarks, and was using an OPIC logo (presumably for Oriental Photo Industrial Co.) at least from 1936 onwards.It made or distributed large format field cameras in the 1920s or 1930s. It also published a photographic magazine, Photo-Times. It made an attempt at exporting some products in the mid-1930s, placing advertisements in the 1937 and 1938 editions of The British Journal Photographic Almanac.

It is said that the company Tōyō Kōki Seizō, which made the Peacock cameras from 1939, was a subsidiary of Oriental.It was merged into the main company in 1944, becoming its optical instruments branch (光機部門), dissolved in 1945.

The company became Cyber Graphics at an unknown date and still (2009) exists under that name.

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