27th in an occasional series
Staff writer Shin Yasuhara, 34, is the founder, president, engineer, spokesman and salesman of Yasuhara Co., which he claims is the world's smallest camera maker.
The firm was born out of communications on the World Wide Web. Yasuhara set up a Web site two years ago to talk about his plan, if not dream, to churn out from scratch an old-fashioned range-finder camera with a Leica L-type lens mount, which no major camera maker produces any more.