Elmoflex

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Japanese 6×6 TLR
Prewar and wartime models (edit)
6×6cm	Elmoflex | First Reflex | Kiko Flex | Lyra Flex | Minoltaflex | Minoltaflex Automat | Minoltaflex wartime prototype | Nōman Flex | Ostenflex | Prince Flex | Ricohflex A | Ricohflex B | Rollekonter | Roll-o-Frex | Rorter Ref | Sakura-flex | Starflex | Taroflex | Valflex | Yokusanflex
Postwar models
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Prewar and wartime models ->
Japanese medium format SLR and pseudo TLR ->
Other Japanese 6×6, 4.5×6, 3×4 and 4×4 ->

The Elmoflex was a series of Japanese 6×6 TLRs made by Elmo.

Elmoflex III-F

• Lenses: Zuiko 1:3,5 f=7,5cm
• Shutter: Seikosha-Rapid with speeds 1 to 1/500 sec.

Some other Elmoflexes had Lausar lenses.

Bibliography

• 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. 27.

Links

In English:

• Japanese TLR page (with the Elmoflex) in Barry Toogood's tlr-cameras.com
• Elmoflex in the camera page of Patty Moussali's website (some pictures of the website were taken with the Elmoflex)

In Japanese:

• Elmoflex IIIF at Puppy's Island
• Elmoflex repair notes at Kan's Room
• Elmoflex at Chotto Pinboke
• Elmoflex IIIF at Doru's bar blog
• Elmoflex in a TLR page in Diwa's photo site
• Elmoflex III-F at Otowa no nigan-refu
• Elmoflex specifications at Japan Family Camera
• Elmoflex at Shashin wo tanoshimu
• Pictures taken with an Elmoflex at Nobuo Honda's website
• Advertisement for the Elmoflex dated 1954, reproduced in Shashin-Bako