Article on Tomioka and their industrial lenses

As some of you regulars and for me personally main Yashica/Tomioka experts on the web, who were very kind to help me during my research on the topic, know, I've been writing an article on Tomioka - first and foremost their enlarging and industrial lenses - for quite some time. While a couple of things are still missing or incomplete, I wanted to share the first draft with you in order to let you know what I was able to gather so far.

There are actually two articles:

1.) THE TOMIOKA STORY
deltalenses.com/the-tomioka-story/

a little bit of background in terms of history of Tomioka as a company.

and

2.) TOMIOKA INDUSTRIAL LENSES
deltalenses.com/tomioka-industrial-lenses/

an overview of three notable lens families (EXXC minilab lenses, The Osawa Tominon enlarging lenses and the Polaroid MP4/5 macro and repro lenses) + a couple of other Tomioka made industrial lenses I found along the way.


A BIG THANK YOU to all of you here, who provided some very interesting and valuable information, feedback and sources. I've tried to credit everone I've included, but if you feel like I've missed something, if you want to be attributed differently or don't want to be included at all, please let me know and I'll try to correct it immediately. This whole topic has gotten way bigger than I had ever imagined, so please forgive me, if there are still some errors or missing pieces in there.

I'd love to hear what you think about the article, or some of the lenses (I know some of you have hands-on experience with a couple of them). And if you happen to know some good sources I'm missing, please let me know as well, so I can further refine this write-up!


Here are a couple of sample shots made with these lenses:


Way closer... to Spring by simple.joy, on Flickr




Don't worry, we're just playing ball here! by simple.joy, on Flickr




Bad leather front by simple.joy, on Flickr




Mandatory morning breathing by simple.joy, on Flickr




Bumping heads by simple.joy, on Flickr




Ballways online by simple.joy, on Flickr




Absence can be felt. by simple.joy, on Flickr




My macro swan song by simple.joy, on Flickr




Densely populated by simple.joy, on Flickr




Pretty or just pre-tea? by simple.joy, on Flickr




Silence of the lamps by simple.joy, on Flickr