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The '''Yallu Flex''' is a 35mm [[TLR]] produced as a prototype in 1949 by Yallu Optical Co Ltd (ヤルー光学, Yarū Kōgaku), a company formed afresh for the purpose.
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The '''Yallu Flex''' (ヤルーフレックス) is a 35mm [[TLR]] produced as a prototype in 1949 by Yallu Optical Co Ltd (ヤルー光学, Yarū Kōgaku), a company formed afresh for the purpose. It was named after the Yalu river.<ref> Or perhaps after the American pronunciation of the name of this river (in Chinese ''Yālǜjiāng,'' 鴨綠江, 鸭绿江; in Korean ''Amnokkang,'' 압록강; in Japanese ''Ōryokkō'' 鴨緑江). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalu_River the English Wikipedia page about the Yalu River]. </ref>
  
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The Yallu Flex (sometimes referred to as "Yalluflex") was influenced by the Zeiss Contaflex, which was available in Japan at a very high price and was of particular interest in view of the patchy availability of roll film. 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: it is said that potential dealers were unimpressed by the prototypes that they received. About fifty were produced.
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The Yallu Flex (sometimes referred to as "Yalluflex") was influenced by the [[Contaflex_(TLR)|Zeiss Contaflex]], which was available in Japan at a very high price and was of particular interest in view of the patchy availability of roll film. 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: it is said that potential dealers were unimpressed by the prototypes that they received. About fifty were produced.
  
 
Yallu Optical survived the disappointment, renaming itself [[Aires]] and bringing out 120 TLRs and other cameras.
 
Yallu Optical survived the disappointment, renaming itself [[Aires]] and bringing out 120 TLRs and other cameras.
  
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==Links==
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== Notes ==
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*[http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/yailu.html Yallu Flex] (billed as "Yallu Reflex-35"), from [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html this page] of old Japanese magazine adverts
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*[http://www.kanroshobo.com/KANROKANRO/CLACAMESENKA/clacame21-25.html ''Kurashikku Kamera Senka 21&ndash;25''] a page about five issues of a Japanese periodical, clearly showing the front cover of each; no.&nbsp;22 shows a Yallu Flex
 
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* [http://www.tapestry.org.uk/html/35tlr.html The Yallu Flex in context]: 35mm TLR cameras
 
  
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==Source / further reading==
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== Sources / further reading ==
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* Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Airesu no kamera: Yarū Furekkusu soshite 6&times;6-han niganrefu, 35mm kamera e" (アイレスのカメラ：ヤルーフレックスそして6&times;6判二眼レフ、35mmカメラへ, The Aires cameras: From the Yallu Flex to 6&times;6 TLRs and 35mm cameras). Chapter 5 of {{Zunow10}} First published as an article in {{KKS}} no.22.
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* Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Yunīku-na keitai no 35mm nigan-refu: Yarū Furekkusu" (ユニークな形態の35mm二眼レフ:ヤルーフレックス, A 35mm TLR with a unique shape: the Yallu Flex). {{KKS035}} P.120.
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* Kuno Mikio (久野幹雄). "35mm-han nigan-refu no sekai" (35mm判二眼レフの世界, The world of 35mm TLRs.) {{KKS010}} Pp.128–30.
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* ''Watakushi no ni-gan-refu kamera-ten'' (私の二眼レフカメラ展, Exhibition of twin lens reflex cameras). Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 1992. (Exhibition catalogue, no ISBN number.) P.32.
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== Links ==
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In English:
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* Marriage, John. "[https://www.refracted.net/35tlr.html History of the 35mm Twin Lens Reflex]".
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* [http://corsopolaris.net/supercameras/twin25/tlr35.html 35mm TLR] at Massimo Bertacchi's [http://corsopolaris.net/supercameras/ Innovative cameras].
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* [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Yallu-Opt.-Yalluflex/AI-7-24761 Yallu Flex], lot no.697 of the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-7/ seventh Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 21 May 2005
 
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* [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/yailu.html Advertisement for the Yallu Flex] (billed as "Yallu Reflex-35"), reproduced at [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera], a page of old Japanese magazine advertisements by Toshio Inamura
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* [http://www.kanroshobo.com/KANROKANRO/CLACAMESENKA/clacame21-25.html ''Kurashikku Kamera Senka 21&ndash;25''] a page about five issues of a Japanese periodical, clearly showing the front cover of each; no.&nbsp;22 shows a Yallu Flex
  
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*Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Airesu no kamera: Yarūfurekkusu soshite 6&times;6han niganrefu, 35mm kamera e (アイレスのカメラ：ヤルーフレックスそして6&times;6判二眼レフ、35mmカメラへ, The Aires cameras: From the Yallu Flex to 6&times;6 TLRs and 35mm cameras). Chapter 5 of {{Zunow10}}
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Yalluflex 24x36mm
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The Yallu Flex (ヤルーフレックス) is a 35mm TLR produced as a prototype in 1949 by Yallu Optical Co Ltd (ヤルー光学, Yarū Kōgaku), a company formed afresh for the purpose. It was named after the Yalu river.[1]

The Yallu Flex (sometimes referred to as "Yalluflex") was influenced by the Zeiss Contaflex, which was available in Japan at a very high price and was of particular interest in view of the patchy availability of roll film. 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: it is said that potential dealers were unimpressed by the prototypes that they received. About fifty were produced.

Yallu Optical survived the disappointment, renaming itself Aires and bringing out 120 TLRs and other cameras.

Notes

  1. ↑ Or perhaps after the American pronunciation of the name of this river (in Chinese Yālǜjiāng, 鴨綠江, 鸭绿江; in Korean Amnokkang, 압록강; in Japanese Ōryokkō 鴨緑江). See the English Wikipedia page about the Yalu River.

Sources / further reading


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Yallu Optical Co Ltd, Yalluflex 24x36mm, Konishiroku Hexar f3.5/50mm lens
Images by yalluflex. (Image rights)


Links

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In Japanese:

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