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The '''Ami''' (アミー) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folder, copy of the [[Ikonta]] with a folding optical finder and a body release.
 
The '''Ami''' (アミー) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folder, copy of the [[Ikonta]] with a folding optical finder and a body release.
  

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The Ami (アミー) is a Japanese 4.5×6 folder, copy of the Ikonta with a folding optical finder and a body release.

It is advertised in 1941[1] and 1942[2] by Tōkyō Shashin Shōkai for ¥115, together with the Sintax (a Baldax copy) as a more expensive alternative. It is offered with an Ami 75mm f:3.5 lens and an Ami shutter with 1–200 speeds.

There is an Amiflex 6×6 TLR dating from the early 1950s; it is unknown if the two cameras are related.

Notes

  1. Mentioned by Kokusan kamera no rekishi.
  2. Advertisement for the Ami and Sintax, published in the March and April 1942 issues of Hōdō Shashin, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, items 9 and 123. Olympus cameras, binoculars and microscopes are also briefly mentioned in this advertisement.

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