Aires

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.

35mm

• Aires 35
• Aires M2.8
• Aires Ever
• Aires Penta 35
• Aires Radar Eye
• Aires Reflex 35
• Aires Viscount
• Yallu Flex

120 film

• Aires Automat
• Airesflex
• Aires Reflex
• Aires Viceroy

Links

In English and Italian:

• Survey of Aires cameras by Massimo Bertacchi; very well illustrated