Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1401135
Area
Photo and video cameras
Model
Aires 35 IIIC
Collection / set
Number in collection
First year of production
1958
Country of origin
Type of film
Negative size
Material
Dimensions
Details

As rolls of film for still cameras became more and more expensive in the late 1950s and many photographers were already buying 35mm film by the meter and loading it themselves into empty used 35mm film cassettes, Aires Camera Co. Japan to build a camera that could use Leica refillable KB film cassettes That became the Aires IIIc. A Leica M3 camera must have been on the designer's drawing board, because some external Leica M3 features can be found in detail on the Aires 35 IIIc. The fact that the Aires 35 IIIc has a permanently mounted lens instead of interchangeable lenses on the Leica M3 did not make it a real copy of it.

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