Mamiya 35 Ruby Standard (1961)
The Mamiya 35 Ruby Standard is a 35mm leaf-shutter, fixed-lens rangefinder. Mamiya introduced it in August 1961. It belongs to the Mamiya 35 series of fixed-lens rangefinders that began in 1949. Through the 1950s that series sat alongside the Mamiyaflex TLRs and the Mamiya 16 subminiatures as the backbone of the company's lineup.
The Ruby Standard has a coupled selenium match-needle lightmeter and a Copal SVK leaf shutter (B + 1-1/500, with self-timer). The lens is a Mamiya Kominar 48mm f/2.0, six elements in five groups. Sources spell the lens name both "Kominar" and "Kominor," so both spellings appear in the record. Focusing is by a double-image coincidence rangefinder. It shoots 24 × 36mm frames and weighs 684g at 80 × 131 × 67mm. The original price was ¥19,500.
Sears sold this camera in the United States as the Tower 18B. Different sources call it the "Sears Tower" and the "Tower" for the same camera. No production end date, unit counts, or period review coverage have surfaced in the research, so how it was received remains thin on the record.
Known specs:
- Lens: Mamiya Kominar 48mm f/2.0 (6 elements / 5 groups)
- Shutter: Copal SVK, B + 1–1/500, self-timer
- Focus: Double-image coincidence rangefinder
- Meter: Coupled selenium match-needle
- Picture size: 24 × 36mm
- Dimensions / weight: 80 × 131 × 67mm · 684g
- Original price: ¥19,500 (August 1961)
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