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The name '''Rippa'''<ref>''Rippa'' (立派) means ''excellent'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20090527002604/http://japanese.about.com/od/howtowritehiragana/p/word323.htm Rippa] on [http://japanese.about.com/ japanese.about.com]  (archived)</ref> appears on two different 35mm cameras made by [[Yamato]] in Tokyo in about 1960. One is a viewfinder camera identical to the Atlas 35 and Sears Tower 55 (McKeown lists it as this viewfinder model, with a photograph).<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}} p1023.</ref> The other is a similarly-styled ''coupled rangefinder'' camera, identical to the [[Pax Ruby|Pal, Pax Ruby, Sunscope, Konair Ruby, or Rex Kaysons]].

The rangefinder camera has a coated 45mm Colo'''u'''r Luna lens, which can be either an f/3.5 or an f/2.8, and a synchronised leaf shutter giving speeds from 1/10 to 1/300 second, plus 'B'; the viewfinder model has an f/3.5 lens, and its slowest shutter speed is 1/25 second. It has the film-type reminder dial not in the hub of the film advance lever, as pictured right, but in the top of a fatter rewind knob.

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[[Category: Japanese 35mm viewfinder]]
[[Category: Japanese 35mm rangefinder]]
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