A vintage Kamerette junior No.2 with the original cardboard box, the manual and 2 film plates included

You are bidding on a vintage Kamerette junior No.2 with original cardboard box, the manual and 2 film plates included. Makes a fantastic display piece, circa 1930. What a wonderful little collector camera. In very good Condition ~Nice Collectable Camera.

We have a very different type of Yen camera. This is the Kamerette Junior No2 . It has a cocking shutter mechanism that the other yens don't usually have and it is more substantially constructed with a rounded edge to the front and an external wooden frame around the ground glass back on the rear.

It is in excellent condition. It has the original box in excellent condition. The original instructions. 2 sealed film packs.


Description


The Kamerette Junior No.2 has a hexagonal plate around the shutter assembly, and has the words Kamerette and Junior No2 around the lens. It measures 5.3cm wide x 7.2cm high x 8cm deep. It is a Yen box camera for 1 1/2" x 2" cut film.

The Super Camera is similar but has a SUPER CAMERA nameplate attached to the body under the lens, and no marking around the lens itself. It is very likely that the box-shaped Baby camera is a mere variant of the Kamerette, as a baby Camera was observed issued with an instruction sheet for a "Super Camera"

This is the Kamerette Junior No2 . It has a cocking shutter mechanism that the other yens don't usually have and it is more substantially constructed with a rounded edge to the front and an external wooden frame around the ground glass back on the rear.


The Kamerette is a simple box camera, made in Japan around 1930. It takes 3×5cm no-need-darkroom film sheets, and is sometimes described as a "yen-camera" because most of these cameras were sold for ¥1. The Kamerette has a single brilliant finder at the top, a fixed-focus lens, no diaphragm and Bulb exposure only.


A brilliant finder is a simple finder designed to be viewed from above, usually formed of a mirror and two lenses. It gives no focusing help, and the image is reversed left to right. It was mainly used in folding cameras and box cameras.


The no-need-darkroom process was used by many inexpensive Japanese cameras from the late 1920s to the postwar period. It was notably used by Tougodo from 1930.
The film was sold in light-proof paper sheaths, with a sliding paper cover. The sheath was loaded into the camera, and the paper cover was slid out to take the picture, then put back before unloading the camera. After the exposure, the sheath was immersed in red-tinted developer fluid and opened again. Complete darkness was not required, because the developer fluid contained a desensitizing agent. This was perhaps phenosafranine or basic scarlet N (a mix of phenosafranine and chrysoidine), red-coloured dyes which were used for that purpose at the time. The film was then immersed in the fixer, removed from the sheath and washed, and the negative was ready. It was usually turned into contact prints, which could be processed in the same chemicals, again in daylight. Printing paper was available for natural light or for electric light, that for natural light usually costing more.

Sellers of Tougo cameras used to demonstrate the process in the street corners in front of their shops, washing the negative with ether and using an electric fan to speed up the washing and drying steps. The resulting picture was offered to the clients, who only had to wash it at home for two hours.


History


The Kamerette Junior No.1, Kamerette Junior No.4 and Camerette are very similar to each other. They have a nameplate attached to the body under the lens, respectively inscribed KAMERETTE JUNIOR NO.1, KAMERETTE JUNIOR NO.4 and CAMERETTE.
The Camerette is very similar, with a CAMERETTE nameplate.


The Kamerette Junior No.2 has a hexagonal plate around the shutter assembly, and has the words Kamerette and Junior No2 around the lens. The Super Camera is similar but has a SUPER CAMERA nameplate attached to the body under the lens, and no marking around the lens itself. It is very likely that the box-shaped Baby camera is a mere variant of the Kamerette, as a baby Camera was observed issued with an instruction sheet for a "Super Camera"


See pictures for cosmetic. All the pictures are from the object itself. What you see is what you will receive. The camera itself has not been tested by myself.
Please can you use the refnr “CAM058” in all our communications.

For your information, I will be selling about a hundred subminiature cameras from my collection in the coming months. So if you are a collector follow my account so you can follow my other items for sale the coming months. Thank you for bidding.




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