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Amano 66 

Amano corporation 

 

Amano was a single lens reflex camera from Amano Corporation, a small precision industry in Japan. It was announced in 1960 but never found its way in serial production making.

It was a 6x6 film camera making 12 exposures in 120 film. Interchangeable optics in screw mount. Normal lens 3.5/80mm of their own production, very similar to the Fujita 66 lens from Fujita Kogaku. But the original Amano lens mount follows the same Korelle thread mount.

Speeds 1/25 to 1/300 plus slow speeds 1, 1/5, 1/10 and B.

 

The Amano 66 had a mirror type shutter very similar to some previous ancestors, which the most known was the Pilot Super or the Pilot 66 from Kamera Werkesttaden.

 

AMANO 66 is a camera of special interest. It had the quick return mirror. Amano Corporation was a company specialized in time clock production. Prototypes are displayed in the museum of the Kanagawa company,

 

 

 

Amano cameras as shown in the 1960 documents for the press.

 

Prototypes at the Kanagawa Company Museum,

 

 

Amano artistical drawing from Motobam

Some Historic:

 

Probably the first successful mirror shutter 6x6, Reflex viewing through taking lens with full-size ground glass screen was the Ihagee Roll-Paff. (1921)

It has a two speed shutter, time and instant. It was offered with either a simple meniscus Achromatic lens, or a 90/6.8 Meyer Trioplan.

A similar variation was available for plates.

 

A Similar camera, the Ensign 2 ¼B Roll-Film Reflex from Houghtons Ltd (1924) had an f8 lens with an automatically applied stop of f11 which is introduced just prior to exposure. Two finishes were available a brown cloth covering or black leather.

A more expensive model with an anastigmatic lens was produced at the same time. It had a different construction and is much rarer today.

 

  

 

The final shape came with the Pilot Super from Kamera Werkesttaden (1939- 1941):  6 x 6 on 120 rollfilm  K.W. Anastigmat 1:3,5  75 mm lens Metal guillotine shutter B + 1/20 - 1/50 - 1/100 - 1/200 sec.

The Pilot Super is built in the same body of the Pilot 6, but with some improvements.

 Although being simple cameras, those mirror shuttered  cameras are very interesting, and if you're just aware of its limitations you can make wonderful pictures with those very charming little camera which is the most compact known  6 x 6 SLR ever built.

A ressurrection came in 1982 when the Great Wall DF-1 was born from the Great Wall manufacturing of Beijing .

 Who also built a pentaprism 35mm built in flash version PF-1

Several  generations of 35mm cameras were also built being the Ihagee’s EXA the most famous.

 

Ihagee KameraWerk, Dresden Germany. EXA 35mm (1952) came with f2.9 50mm Trioplan or Meritar Lens in Exakta Bayonet Mount.

The Karmaflex from Karl Arnold began this miniature heritage

4x4cm on 127 film, "Ludwig Vidar 4,5/6 cm", 1/25-1/100 Sec.

With a faithful clone the The Japanese Super Flex Baby also made from 1938 to 1942. manufactured by Umemoto Seisakusho. Super Anastigmat 70mm f/4.5 lens

 

 

After the war there came a multitude of such design

The two models of Firstflex 35 (1955) & (1958)

Anastigmat 3.5 45mm

Auto Tokinon lens 45mm 2.8

RICOH 1/30 1/300 rikenon 55mm 2.8.  126 and 135 versions 1967 /1966

1966 fixed speeds MAMIYAsekor 2.8 48mm 126 version of the

Mamya autolux (1965)

 

Working basis

Stage 1

 

 

Stage 2

 

 

Stage 3

 

An interesting similarity:

At 1980 Novacaon Vertex built independently a very similar model prototype

Speeds 1/30 to 1/300 and Kiev 6 / Pentacon Six mount.

 

Artistical view by Germano Blum

Exploded view  

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