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Semi First and First Six

1935·Camera

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The Semi First and First Six is a series of Japanese folding cameras in 4.5×6 or 6×6 format, made by Kuribayashi[1] from 1935 and distributed by Minagawa Shōten. There are two generations: the first models with round body ends were succeeded in 1939 by the U models with angled body ends. Later cameras have a rigid finder, with an additional extinction meter or brilliant finder on the BB Semi First. The production of the camera was continued after World War II as the Kuri, and the same body forme

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