Odd Rikenon - what for please?

Oldhand · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 5:48 am Post subject: Odd Rikenon - what for please?

Here is an oddie.
Fixed aperture and no discernible mount.
Any ideas?
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calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7553 Location: Hong Kong

Made for this camera
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Ricoh_126c-Flex_TLS

luisalegria · Expire: 2018-01-18

From a Ricoh camera with a leaf shutter. Ricoh 35 Flex I think.
The aperture mechanism, etc would have been on the camera body.
Most camera companies produced leaf shutter models at one time.

philslizzy · Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 4744 Location: Cheshire, England

Lovely looking camera. Perhaps you can get a body for it cheap and sell it on. There is a collectors market for quality 126 cameras.

You may be able to use it on a helical to focus with a mirrorless camera but it may be a front element only design like the Contaflex with the rear elements in the camera behind the shutter/aperture assembly. In which case it's no good as it is.

Oldhand · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:28 am Post subject:

Thanks fellas.
I don't have the lens, I saw it and became curious.
126 film cartridge SLR - WOW!
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