This is a rare vintage Rank Mamiya Sekor Camera  housed in a chrome body with black fake leatherette covering for grip and wear.  It was made in Japan from 1963.

It belongs to a line of medium range small rangefinder cameras and is much lighter than the previous ranges. The Rank Mamiya is a 35mm rangefinder camera with a fixed Mamiya-Sekor 40mm f/2.8 lens.  It uses an uncoupled selenium meter, so it does not take batteries.  

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

The top plate has an Exposure Value (EV) indicator, where the selenium meter will suggest the exposure settings in EV numbers. These are then used when adjusting exposure on the lens, by adjusting the combination of aperture and shutter speed to show the indicated EV number.

Also on the top is the shutter release, with standard remote thread, and the frame counter which is around the film advance lever. The frame counter has to be reset manually each time you load film.  A cold shoe and the rewind crank are also on the top.

All the controls are on the lens, including the focusing, aperture and shutter speed.  Minimum focus distance is 0.9 metres or 3 feet.  Apertures range from f/2.8 though to f/22.  Shutter speeds include Bulb and range from 1/250^thsecond through to 1/4^th second. A flash sync port is also available on the front of the camera.

The viewfinder is collimated and has parallax correction marks within the framing marks.  The rangefinder patch is in the middle and in contrasted yellow.

Film is loaded from behind and very straight forward with threading of the leader on the right hand side.

·         Quick-cocking lever, with mechanical counter, at its base

·         knob with rewind crank, accessory shoe, cell dial scaled in IL (1-11)

·         40mm 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 1/4 second to 1/250th + B

·         front-mounted flash sync