Doi (retailer)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was a large Japanese retailer and distributor, best known outside Japan as the company that revived the Plaubel Makina 67 camera in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Its roots go back to Doi Shōten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), also referred to as Doi Shōkai (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). This was a Japanese retailer, distributor, or both, that started in 1949. (Doi here is a surname, shōten means "retailer", and shōkai means "trading company".) In the early fifties it was based in Osaka.
Kimio Doi (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Doi Kimio), son of the Mr. Doi of Doi Shōten, started a branch in Fukuoka at some time around 1956. In 1959 this became plain Doi (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Kabushiki Kaisha Doi).
Doi provided diverse services, such as professional darkroom work. Retail stores were branded "Camera no Doi" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Kamera no Doi); these were known for the array of used cameras as well as competitive prices of new equipment.
By the 1980s, Doi was as large a presence as Yodobashi Camera in the Nishi-Shinjuku area of west-central Tokyo. Its sales peaked in March 1989.[1] However, it faltered in the 1990s and closed down in 2003. Doi Technical Photo seems to have survived this, even running a photography gallery in Yūrakuchō,[2] but as of 2006, it appears to be defunct.[3]
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- Template:In lang Asahi Camera (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. Template:ISBN. Item 418.
- Template:In lang Hagiya Takeshi (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). "Makina 67: Ribaibaru shita jabara-kamera" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Makina 67: A bellows camera revival). Chapter 10 of Zunō kamera tanjō: Sengo kokusan kamera jū monogatari (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, The birth of the Zunow camera: Ten stories of postwar Japanese camera makers). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1999. Template:ISBN
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