Rank Mamiya (1963)

Rank Mamiya (1963)

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This photo is from the copy I own

History and technical features 

Also called ALDIS RANGER 35 or MAMIYA RANGER 35.
It is in fact a MAMIYA 4B renamed under the trademark RANK, for the British market.
It belongs to a line of medium range small rengefinder cameras, whose precursor was the MAMIYA RUBIS in 1959.
The manufacture is neat, but much lighter than for  the previous ranges.

Source: collection-appareils.fr

MAMIYA RUBY
In September 1959, Mamiya introduced another leaf shutter 35mm camera, the Mamiya Ruby. It was a front-lens focusing linked rangefinder with a point matching exposure meter, read in a dial on top of the camera, not through the lens (see picture at right). It had a 48mm f/2.8 Mamiya-Sekor lens. A more advanced version, featuring lens and aperture control, with an f/1.9 Mamiya-Sekor lens, was introduced in May 1960. The Ruby was to become the style basis for several Mamiya rangefinders.
Building on the Ruby line was the Mamiya M3, a less expensive cousin, introduced in May 1961. It featured a fully synchro flash contact, shutter speeds from 1 to 1/500, and came with a fixed 48mm Mamiya-Kominar f/2.0 lens. Yet another related camera, the Mamiya 4B, released in 1963, came with a selenium-cell meter, a fixed 40mm Mamiya-Kominar f/2.8 lens and a much more limited shutter (1/4 - 1/250). Similar Mamiya rangefinders were often rebranded as Rank Mamiya cameras when sold in the U.K.

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Specifications

35mm rangefinder for 24 x 36 images. Fully mechanical with selenium cell.

Quick-cocking lever, with mechanical counter, at its base.
Knob with rewind crank, accessory shoe; Cell dial scaled in IL (1 to 11).
40 mm collimated frame viewfinder with parallax correction marks.
Rectangular rangefinder image of comfortable size and well contrasted yellow.
Selenium cell on the front.
Adjusting of the film sensitivity on the shutter.
MAMIYA lens SEKOR 1: 2,8-22 / 40mm
SEIKOSHA shutter from ¼ second to 1 / 250th + B
Front-mounted flash sync.

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Model

Serial number 104947


Reference sites

52rangefinders.blogspot.com

collection-appareils.fr

mamiya35collectors.com


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