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'''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. | '''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 (TLR)|Contaflex]] | + | 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 (TLR)|Contaflex]]. 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''. | Later cameras bore the name ''Aires''. | ||
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*H. Arai's camera repair pages (text in Japanese, pictures): | *H. Arai's camera repair pages (text in Japanese, pictures): | ||
**[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RD2H-ARI/BUN_RADEREYE.htm Aires Radar-Eye] | **[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RD2H-ARI/BUN_RADEREYE.htm Aires Radar-Eye] | ||
Revision as of 10:16, 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. 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
120 film
Links
- H. Arai's camera repair pages (text in Japanese, pictures):
