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Revision as of 08:45, 20 May 2006
Aires — in Japanese アイレス Airesu (like "eye-rescue" minus the "cue"); more fully アイレス写真機製作所 Airesu shashinki seisakusho — was a Japanese manufacturer of a number of 35mm and roll film cameras.
As Yallu Optical Co Ltd (ヤルー光学, Yarū Kōgaku), the company started in 1949 to produce the Yallu Flex, a 35mm TLR influenced by the Zeiss Contaflex, which was available in Japan at a very high price and was of particular interest in view of the patchy availability of roll film. The Yallu Flex was ingeniously and elegantly designed and was well equipped and appealingly advertised, but in the end it was never offered for sale. About fifty were produced.
Later cameras bore the name Aires.
[More later.]
35mm
Links
- A page of old Japanese magazine adverts:
- Yallu Flex (billed as "Yallu Reflex-35")
- Airesflex IV
- Aires 35-IIIB
- Takasaki Motohiro's repair/maintenance pages (text in Japanese, plus pictures):
- Airesflex, in particular detail, by Hiura Shinsaku (also in Japanese)
- Aires 35 IIIC in a blog (in Japanese), with photos
- Cameras at Puppy's Island (text in Japanese, pictures, sample photos):
- Aires Viscount with attachment lens is shown in the 15 March 2003 entry in this blog
- Airesflex specifications (in Japanese)
- Aires 35II and Aires 35III] short texts (in Japanese) and pictures
- Aires 35V text (in Japanese) and pictures
- H. Arai's camera repair pages (text in Japanese, pictures):
- Airesflex cameras text in Japanese, pictures
- Aires Viscount text in Japanese, pictures
- Aires Viceroy and Aires 35V
- Airesflex at Bob Monaghan's site
- Aya's camera (text in Japanese, and pictures):
- Sample photos from an Airesflex U
- Tests of the Nikkor-Q.C. lens on an Airesflex
- Sample photos from an Airesflex Automat