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Palma plate folders

1929·Camera

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The Palma (パルマー)[1] or S.Y.K Palma are Japanese folding cameras taking film plates. They were distributed and perhaps made by Kyūreidō in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The initials S.Y.K, found in other Kyūreidō products, have an unknown meaning; this was perhaps the name of the manufacturing branch of the company. The Palma exist in three formats: the larger model is in tefuda size (8×10.5cm), the middle model is inconsistently advertised as meishi or daimeishi, and is certainly in 6.5×9cm fo

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