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− | The '''Aires Viceroy''' is a folding 6×6 coupled-rangefinder camera that [[Aires]] produced for export to India (some sources say southeast Asia) around 1957. The body was manufactured by [[Takane]] (and was based on that for the Mihama Six), the finder by Aires. | + | The '''Aires Viceroy''' is a folding 6×6 coupled-rangefinder camera that [[Aires]] produced for export to India (some sources say southeast Asia) around 1957. The body was manufactured by [[Takane]] (and was based on that for the [[Mihama Six]]), the finder by Aires. |
The Viceroy came with an 75mm f3.5 lens: either a Coral (produced by Aires) or a Nikkor. This was unit-focussed (the entire lens assembly moved for focussing, not merely the frontmost element). | The Viceroy came with an 75mm f3.5 lens: either a Coral (produced by Aires) or a Nikkor. This was unit-focussed (the entire lens assembly moved for focussing, not merely the frontmost element). |
Revision as of 06:15, 23 May 2006
The Aires Viceroy is a folding 6×6 coupled-rangefinder camera that Aires produced for export to India (some sources say southeast Asia) around 1957. The body was manufactured by Takane (and was based on that for the Mihama Six), the finder by Aires.
The Viceroy came with an 75mm f3.5 lens: either a Coral (produced by Aires) or a Nikkor. This was unit-focussed (the entire lens assembly moved for focussing, not merely the frontmost element).
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Source / further reading
- Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Mine Shikkusu: Gunma-ken Takasaki-shi no kameramēkā" (ミネシックス:群馬県高崎市のカメラメーカー, Mine Six: A camera-maker in Takasaki, Gunma). Chapter 7 of Zunō kamera tanjō: Sengo kokusan kamera jū monogatari (ズノーカメラ誕生:戦後国産カメラ10物語, The birth of the Zunow camera: Ten stories of postwar Japanese camera makers). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1999. ISBN 4-257-12023-1 In Japanese only. First published in issue 27 (December 1993) of Kamera rebyū: Kurashikku kamera senka (カメラレビュー・クラシックカメラ専科). On the manufacture by Takane and the reason for this.