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Welmy Six and Mount Six

1951·Camera

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The Welmy Six are viewfinder-only 6×6cm folding cameras made by Taisei Kōki. The Mount Six is a name variant of the Welmy Six E, and the Mount Six III is a version with an uncoupled rangefinder. The cameras appeared on the Japanese market in 1951, produced under the name Narikō (abbreviated from Narimasu Kōki), one of the parent companies of Taisei Kōki. According to Sugiyama Taisei Kōki coded its 6x6 folder types based on the letters of its name (W-E-L-M-Y), but went out of business at the tim

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