Semi Olympic
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The Semi Olympic or New Olympic is a Japanese 4.5×6 camera made of bakelite, released in 1937. The camera was marketed by Asahi Bussan for a short time, and its production certainly began in the company's own manufacturing facilities (see the discussion in Asahi Bussan). In late 1937, the manufacturer was bought by Riken and reorganized as the dependent Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō. (The examples found today have an AKK logo on the shutter plate, for Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō.) After 1938 or 1939, the distributi