Nifca Klapp

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"Nichidoku Shashinki Shōten, later Molta Gōshi-gaisha then Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (the predecessors of Minolta), made a series of 6.5×9cm folding bed plate cameras from 1930 to the war. These are the Nifcaklapp (ニフカクラップ), Nifcasport (ニフカスポート), Sirius (シリウス), Arcadia (アルカデア), Eaton (イートン), Lomax (ロマックス) and Happy (ハッピー). All have a metal body, a swivelling brilliant finder and a wireframe finder. They have double extension bellows driven by a wheel or worm screw placed on the photographer's right, and have a distance scale on the left. The various models differ by the focusing mechanism, the movement abilities and many other details. This…"

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