Kiku 16 -- Latest Lucky Submini Find

So I was in the antique store looking for cameras and the clerk says "Here's what you need" and plops what looks like a standard "Hit" type camera in my hand, judging by the case.

Open it up, sure enough, but it seems to be slightly not as trashy as most -- maybe the fact that the shutter actually cocks and fires, the metal doesn't bend if you look at it harshly. Whatever.

And it's marked $7 "but I can give it to you for $5," he says, so I say "Deal."

Get it home, turns out its a Kiku16 II -- a Morita Trading Co. -made "spy" camera from 1956 that McKoen's, anyway, shows at anywhere from $100 to $150, probably because it's actually pretty well made, could be classified as a "Leica Copy," and seems to still be working, lo these many years.

So, good find of the day, no?

Solid find! Glass lens or plastic?

Does it take the standard Hit film on tiny spools, too?

Fixcinater said:

Solid find! Glass lens or plastic?

Does it take the standard Hit film on tiny spools, too?

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Yes to both.
I need to cut some.