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JCII inspects and tests Japanese cameras before they reach the consumer!

JCII is the title of trust for Japanese cameras, and whenever this name is mentioned with any new production - cameras, lenses and other optical equipment - this means that this piece has been subjected to a series of high tests to ensure its safety and success in all technical fields and under all circumstances

In Japan, manufacturers of cameras and their equipment no longer rely solely on the self-tests of their technicians, but there is a private institution concerned with conducting comprehensive testing on modern cameras to ensure all technical operations and the safety and effectiveness of each part of the camera.
This institution or organization has become trusted by the owners of companies and consumers at the same time.
From here we will often find on the pamphlets distributed with the Japanese cameras the phrase JCII as a sign of trust.

The JCII is an organization that works through its revelation of quality to serve all people, who use cameras and other optical devices in every corner of the world. Its supervisors say:
We are open to any country and people, and we are pleased to provide our services to add more development to the world of trade and the photographic industry.
We always welcome your advice about our activities. Please visit our institution if you have the opportunity to come to Japan.
This was stated in a letter to Kenji Moriana, President (JCII) and a member of the House of Representatives of Japan.
Our mission:
Mr. Moriana continues by saying that we started our work to test the quality in all Japanese cameras intended for export and to prevent what is of poor quality from entering the market. As a result of our efforts over a long time, all Japanese camera producers ended up recognizing the benefit of the inspection conducted by our experts to maintain and even improve the quality. So they are incorporating our detection into their production curriculum in hopes of making their mass production systems efficient for making good quality cameras.
Despite this, we still frequently find outrageous faults in new products, and sometimes in products that have long existed, because producers are so used to their products that they ignore the faults, and the data of our detection clearly shows how difficult it is to realize what is ideal for a person! JCII's mission, as one of the world's leading detection and testing organizations, is to help Japanese camera manufacturers improve the quality of their products.

Camera user interest:
It is widely recognized that the current Japanese cameras are of great quality and are very reliable. This is due to the efforts made by the producers to maintain quality and reliability. Each producer manufactures several hundred thousand or even millions of cameras annually under an effective quality control system, and ships these cameras after undergoing repeated testing.
However, the quality assurance system is designed primarily for the benefit of the producer, not the users of the cameras. From here, (JCII) comes to examine these cameras from the point of view of their users, and we inform the producers of the results and data of our test, helping them to manufacture cameras that will benefit their users to the fullest.

What is the type of test?
The camera should function normally wherever and whenever its user takes a picture. Whatever those advantages that are included in the “catalogue” are wonderful, the camera remains useless if it does not work at the crucial moment, and to avoid events of this kind,
JCII conducts the following durability and reliability tests.

To detect the extent to which the camera continues to operate at its best, ICII performs repeated operations of film installation, rewinding, and focusing. Release the shutter, and rewind the film.
This process is repeated a thousand times for ordinary cameras, and a thousand times for those with a motorized winder.
Detection of the ability to withstand vibration and shock during transportation or touring, and this detection is carried out using a vibration and shock test device. As for the test specifications, they are determined according to the results of a lengthy research into actual vibrations and shocks that the camera may be exposed to during transport and movement. Detection of the camera’s ability to work under high temperatures
and low.

- How is the selection made
These tests are not intended to detect the quality of individual cameras. It is the duty of the producing company to confirm the quality of its cameras, and to achieve this goal, it must adjust its production methods. From here, the inspection of the quality control system of the producing company comes through testing cameras that we adopt as samples, where work is done in a random manner to select a specific number of cameras out of a large production of them, according to an in-kind plan described and when it passes
These samples have been subjected to strict tests successfully, the method of the producing company is considered disciplined, and the concerned product is considered fit for export.

On the contrary, when he notices that the production process is not disciplined, he rejects the intended production. Rather, the rejection includes a number of cameras amounting to thousands. Even if only a few pieces of poor quality were found, that meant many good cameras were also rejected within the group.
Accordingly, each of the producers must work on adjusting his manufacturing method accurately and carefully, in order to avoid his good cameras being rejected by the test we are conducting.

- results :
In 1983, Japan exported 12 million still cameras, ten million interchangeable lenses and five million electronic flash units. These are figures that prove that many people in the world welcome cameras and photographic and optical equipment made in Japan.
It should be noted that the very rapid growth of the Japanese camera industry is due to the intensive comprehensive research, and the adoption of the principle of development to improve mainly to the efforts made by the producers in the field of conducting the quality of their products.
It is not possible to ignore (JCII), which in turn was and still plays a role in this quality improvement process: the tests that aim to benefit the users of the devices mainly benefit the producers as well.

- Business practiced by (JCII)
(JCII) performs many tests and checks that are required of it, such as quality tests and completion of optical and photographic equipment in each of the production stages:

(a) A quality check, as is the case with JCII, affixed or stamped to products that have undergone official inspection. An inspected sign may be affixed to products intended for sale in tax-exempt stores for travelers arriving from abroad, while an OK sign may be affixed. It is (approved) on Japanese goods on the quality and completion of photographic and optical equipment if required to be produced outside Japan. (b) consumer tests. These are examined by JCII by consumer organizations, photographic magazines, and government agencies in Japan and abroad.
(C) Testing by advanced devices at (JCII), a detailed measurement of the optical transmission function (OTF) and spectral transmission in lenses and the change in flash light in an electronic flash and so on can be made.

Research and development
Today, JCII is recognized as one of the main centers for research and development in the field of photographic and optical equipment as it conducts extensive comprehensive research and development of specific equipment in the field of optical engineering. This research and development is conducted by (JCIT) either by itself or in cooperation with producers, national laboratories or universities. (JCII) has a group of technical advisors composed of well-known university professors and engineers, pioneer researchers working in national and other public laboratories. JCII asks them for advice. And provide suggestions or instructions, while conducting a research or carrying out developmental work.

Here are some examples of research and development:
(a) A multi-objective spectrophotometer - a tool for measuring the relative light intensity between different parts of the spectrum - to measure the spectral response in multiple photographic cells. spectral transmission, chromatic contribution to camera lenses, etc.
(b) An OTF measuring device for evaluating the quality of images taken with interchangeable lenses for 35 mm still cameras.
C) A tool for measuring the veiling glare distribution on an image structure of 24 mm x 36 mm from different lenses, lens devices, and a camera.
(d) A device for measuring the temporary spectral features of flash light.
(e) A device for measuring image blur due to intrinsic vibrations in the camera body.
(f) Flash counter for indicative number measurement.

Since JCII is not a producing organization, it does not give a guarantee for every piece that is produced. however
And to emphasize the quality of all Japanese exported products.
(JCII) conducts continuous follow-up investigations on products that succeeded when the first inspection was conducted on them before they were sold outside Japan, in cooperation with the Japanese External Trade Organization, and the “Mechanized Optical Information Center in Japan.”

In addition to that, a historical exhibition was devoted to cameras, and in the exhibition room, we find most of the cameras that were produced in Japan are displayed there, along with a group
Some of the Japanese and foreign cameras are titled Historical Cameras, with remarkable mechanics and highlighting the technical development of the camera.
These cameras were displayed under the title “Development of the Japanese Camera” inside the museum.
( g ) Confidence research group to investigate the effects of vibration , shock , temperature and other conditions .

Other activities
JCII is working on distributing many materials and equipment necessary to conduct detection and tests: dissolution test maps, test films for cinema projectors, size scales, flash meters, and others. Since its establishment, JCII has been active in setting national and international standards. Many of its engineers were and still are members of the Japanese Industrial Standards Setting Committee (JIS) or members of the working group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), more than this, since 1967. , and (JCII) is actively involved in the work of the Japanese National Standards Commission. As the secretarial body of the Japanese National Committee of the 42nd Technical Committee of the (ISO) Photographic Committee.

- International Photographer" at the "George Eastman House" - Rochester, New York, USA from June 1st to September 4th, 1984, and the exhibition traveled to four other cities: Baltimo, Fort Worth, Tampa, and Riverside, and it continues until December 1985. .

In 1975, JCII issued the Bulletin of the History of Japanese Cameras in two volumes. It is a fruit
Several years' work was carried out by an editorial committee organized by JCII and composed of eminent experts, all familiar with cameras and the photographic industry in general. Although the publication or author is written in Japanese, JCII has donated copies to the Museum of World Photography - George Eastman House, Rochester - the Royal Photographic Society in London, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

In the year 1973, the Borders Club was established under the supervision of (JCII). It is a club of leaders in the Japanese photographic industry with distinguished people who have served the industry overseas. And they contributed to transforming it into a global industry. This club also issues honorary membership awards, for foreign citizens only. It is an award that has been awarded to only nine people so far, in recognition of them for the many years of their lives that they devoted to serving the photographic industry in both the fields of improving global friendship and prosperity. In the world its length and breadth ⏹