Larry Cloetta
Veteran
Okay, just having a little fun with clickbait, while suffering from lockdown depression. Please excuse the jest.
But, there is an interesting story here. Nikon did, at one time, draw up plans for entering the TLR market, with this:
Didn't happen, obviously, but around that same period, while apparently toying with the idea, Nikon did make a few Nikkor-Q TLR lenses available to Aires, who then used them in a small smattering of their TLR cameras, instead of their normal, in house, Coral lenses. Aires used them in the Aires Automat, and perhaps (I don't know) a few of their Airesreflex bodies.
Glass on this one is perfect, that's just dust on the lens.
These are very nice lenses, IMO, and the camera is a very nice picture making machine. The cameras themselves are a bit clunky, (my impression was of farm implements) but very solid and seemingly bullet proof. Mine wasn't much of a looker, but always worked without major issues, though the frame spacing could at times be a bit large, and I am sure mine never had any kind of service inflicted upon it.
Focusing screen is dimmer, especially around the periphery, than the screen on my Yashica D, or Rolleiflex 3.5F, but it is sharper and easier to focus than the Yashica, and about as easy as the Rolleiflex.
A a couple of representative photos to follow.
But, there is an interesting story here. Nikon did, at one time, draw up plans for entering the TLR market, with this:
Didn't happen, obviously, but around that same period, while apparently toying with the idea, Nikon did make a few Nikkor-Q TLR lenses available to Aires, who then used them in a small smattering of their TLR cameras, instead of their normal, in house, Coral lenses. Aires used them in the Aires Automat, and perhaps (I don't know) a few of their Airesreflex bodies.
Glass on this one is perfect, that's just dust on the lens.
These are very nice lenses, IMO, and the camera is a very nice picture making machine. The cameras themselves are a bit clunky, (my impression was of farm implements) but very solid and seemingly bullet proof. Mine wasn't much of a looker, but always worked without major issues, though the frame spacing could at times be a bit large, and I am sure mine never had any kind of service inflicted upon it.
Focusing screen is dimmer, especially around the periphery, than the screen on my Yashica D, or Rolleiflex 3.5F, but it is sharper and easier to focus than the Yashica, and about as easy as the Rolleiflex.
A a couple of representative photos to follow.
