{"id":33987,"date":"2026-04-20T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33987"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:29:53","slug":"a-6x9-slr-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-6x9-slr-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"a 6&#215;9 SLR from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33988\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Optika-IIa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33988\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Optika-IIa-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an Optika IIa with a 6&#215;6 back and 10.5cm Luminor lens &#8211; lot 28<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. When I returned from Labrador, I expanded my working camera gear. Visiting a local shop, I was shown a new 6&#215;9 SLR called the Rittreck IIa manufactured overseas by a small camera company in Japan called <a href=\"https:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Musashino_and_Wista\">Musashino Koki<\/a> (M.K.K.) at the time and later renamed Wista.<\/p>\n<p>In the states, the Rittreck was sold by Seymour&#8217;s in NYC and rebadged as the Optika IIa. Seymour&#8217;s imported and marketed the camera taking out ads in the photography magazines of the day.<\/p>\n<p>In our coming spring Estate auction on May 3rd, lot 28 is an Optika IIa with a 6&#215;6 back and a 10.5cm f\/3.5 lens. Come and see what else fits your collection. An earlier post pinned to this site until May 3rd <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/may-3-2026-spring-auction\/\">can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. When I returned from Labrador, I expanded my working camera gear. Visiting a local shop, I was shown a new 6&#215;9 SLR called the Rittreck IIa manufactured overseas by a small camera company in Japan called Musashino Koki (M.K.K.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-6x9-slr-from-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[500,3087,35,34,105,14,279],"class_list":["post-33987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessories","tag-binoculars","tag-books","tag-cameras","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33992,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions\/33992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}