Ebony Camera was founded in 1981 by photographer Hiromi Sakanashi.
Sakanashi himself is a graduate of Tokyo Photographic University.
His family have a long history in the photography business.
Sakanashi made a protype camera from ebony wood and stainless steel.
This prototype eventually lead to the SV45-series cameras.
Sakanashi then developed the WIDE45 wooden field camera.
In the early days of Ebony most cameras were actually custom-built to customers specifications.
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