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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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 19:26, 17 March 2007
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.
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.
Source / further reading
In Japanese:
- Hagiya Takeshi (萩谷剛). "Airesu no kamera: Yarūfurekkusu soshite 6×6-han niganrefu, 35mm kamera e" (アイレスのカメラ：ヤルーフレックスそして6×6判二眼レフ、35mmカメラへ, The Aires cameras: From the Yallu Flex to 6×6 TLRs and 35mm cameras). Chapter 5 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.
- Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.35, November 1995. Nihon no kamera 50nen (日本のカメラ50年, special issue on 50 years of Japanese cameras).
Links
In English:
- The Yallu Flex in context: 35mm TLR cameras
In Japanese:
- Advertisement for the Yallu Flex (billed as "Yallu Reflex-35"), reproduced at Nostalgic Camera, a page of old Japanese magazine advertisements by Toshio Inamura
- Kurashikku Kamera Senka 21–25 a page about five issues of a Japanese periodical, clearly showing the front cover of each; no. 22 shows a Yallu Flex
- Yallu Flex at Nagoya's Camera Club
