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The Konishiroku Pearlette is a compact folding camera manufactured by Konishiroku Photo Industry in 1929, designed for 127 roll film producing ~4x6.5 cm negatives. It is a vest-pocket-style folder inspired by the popular European Vest Pocket Kodak format, fitted with the company's own **Hexar 75mm f/4.5** lens in a simple leaf shutter. The Pearlette is among the earliest cameras to bear the Pearl name and represents Konishiroku's ambition to compete in the consumer camera segment before World War II. No rangefinder is present; focus is set by estimating distance and reading the scale on the lens barrel.
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Pre-war Japanese 127-format vest-pocket folder from Konishiroku with Hexar 75/4.5 lens.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 127 film (~16 exposures, 4x6.5 cm) |
| Lens | Hexar 75mm f/4.5 (fixed, scale focus) |
| Shutter | ~1s - 1/100s, leaf shutter |
| Flash sync | ~ |
| Rangefinder | None (scale focus) |
| Meter | None |
| Weight | ~ |
| Battery | None required |
Konishiroku Photo Industry traced its origins to a photographic supply shop founded in the 1870s in Tokyo. By the late 1920s the company was manufacturing photographic chemicals, paper, and glass plates, and the Pearlette represented an entry into finished camera production. The design drew directly from the European vest-pocket tradition, particularly the format established by Kodak and the style popularized by Zeiss and Voigtlander. The Pearlette preceded the Pearl line that would appear in the postwar era, and used 127 film rather than the 120 roll format that later Pearl models adopted.
The Konishiroku Pearlette is historically significant as an early example of Japanese domestic camera manufacturing at a time when the market was dominated by German and American imports. Its existence demonstrates that Konishiroku was developing optics and mechanical camera bodies as early as the late 1920s. The Hexar lens line, which would continue through postwar models including the Pearl and Hexar-equipped Konica rangefinders, had its roots in designs like this one. For collectors, the Pearlette is a rare artifact of pre-war Japanese industrial photography history.
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