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− | '''Aires''' — in Japanese アイレス ''Airesu'' (like "eye-rescue" minus the "cue"); more fully | + | '''Aires''' — in Japanese アイレス ''Airesu'' (like "eye-rescue" minus the "cue"); more fully '''K.K. Aires Shashinki Seisakusho''' ({{kabu}}アイレス写真機製作所) — was a Japanese manufacturer of a number of 35mm and roll film cameras. It was based in Tokyo.<REF> Its address from 1951 to early 1956 was Tōkyō-to Toshima-ku Takada-minami-machi 3–797 (東京都豊島区高田南町3–797), from late 1956 to 1959 it was Tōkyō-to Shinjuku-ku Nishi-Ōkubo 1–437 (東京都新宿区西大久保1–437). Source: advertisements reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp. 113–4 and 216–8. </REF> |
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. | 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. |
Revision as of 17:10, 2 February 2007
Aires — in Japanese アイレス Airesu (like "eye-rescue" minus the "cue"); more fully K.K. Aires Shashinki Seisakusho (㈱アイレス写真機製作所) — was a Japanese manufacturer of a number of 35mm and roll film cameras. It was based in Tokyo.[1]
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.
35mm
- Aires 35
- Aires M2.8
- Aires Ever
- Aires Penta 35
- Aires Radar Eye
- Aires Reflex 35
- Aires Viscount
- Yallu Flex
120 film
Links
In English and Italian:
- Survey of Aires cameras by Massimo Bertacchi; very well illustrated