Are there any Bossy camera users here?

[numerus]

Hello,

I wanted to find out if there are any other users of Japanese Bossy cameras? I have a Bossy Box that I use regularly and enjoy using. I guess it is meant as a simple portrait camera. Unfortunately, I could never find original lens boards, so I made some out of aluminum. Fortunately, the shape of them is very simple. I would like to have an adapter for Technika boards, but have not yet been able to find one. I will probably have to build one myself.

There is also the Bossy View (example on Ebay: Bossy View Camera), which looks very interesting to me, as it seems to allow all the usual movements. Do any of you use it? How did you solve the lens board board problem? And do you know if there also exists a Graflok-back?

 

[pentaxuser]

Hello,

I wanted to find out if there are any other users of Japanese Bossy cameras?

I had never heard of a Bossy camera until now but do know some bossy users of cameras

Sorry, just a bit of British humour on my part which I could not resist. The word "bossy" in English is an informal word meaning someone who likes to tell people what to do

Best of luck with a sensible answer

pentaxuser

 

[Dustin McAmera]

I was recently trying to find out about Shiro / 'S&K' cameras from Japan, and came across this one at ebay (to be clear, this isn't my sale)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135211064583

It's a monorail, but the rail is a similar complicated-aluminium-tube part to your ebay example, and it carries the same patent numbers on it, and the same PSFV moulding on the end-plugs of the rail (which I now suppose stands for Portable Studio Field View). I wasn't able to find either of those patents to see who had filed them. Someone sold one here (in this old for-sale item: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/sold-s-k-4x5-camera-complete-studio-kit.195231/ ) and said he thought it looked a lot like a Toyo.
That's all I know.

 

[numerus]

Sorry, just a bit of British humour on my part which I could not resist. The word "bossy" in English is an informal word meaning someone who likes to tell people what to do

I already learned that when I searched for “Bossy Box” and “Bossy View” on flickr. I got a lot of results, but unfortunately none that had anything to do with cameras

I was recently trying to find out about Shiro / 'S&K' cameras from Japan, and came across this one at ebay (to be clear, this isn't my sale)

This S&K seems to be related to my Bossy. Especially some of the knobs are identical, but also the construction of the focusing screen frame and the smaller lens boards seem to be the original ones for my camera. They are 11.4 x 11.4 cm (4.49 x 4.49 inches) in size.

My camera has a very simple design. There is only tilt and rise on the front standard, but for portraits that is quite enough. The camera is quite large overall - the name “box” fits perfectly. It measures 24 x 25 x 22 cm (9.45 x 9.84 x 8.66 inches). I still need to find a suitable bag for it. Lenses from 90 mm to 240 mm can be used.

 

[numerus]

Two pictures Bossy made for me