Extremely Rare Oplenflex Japanese 6×6 TLR Oplenon, Rektor
Original case, wear mark in several places.
Camera body with minor damage in several places (see pictures)
Extremely Rare, some pieces of it exist in the world!
Original mirror broke, got a new Rolleiflex mirror.
It needs fixing, it seems to be working
The name OPLENFLEX is inscribed in an oval nameplate.
The word JAPAN is inscribed on the back latch.
There is a logo in the accessory shoe, reading SK, STK or perhaps TSK.
The example pictured in this page has a Rektor shutter, giving B, 1–300 speeds and having a self-timer. The name REKTOR is inscribed on the speed rim. The taking lens is an Oplenon Anastigmat 8.0cm f/3.5 (no.4362), and the viewing lens is a Viewer Anastigmat 8.0cm f/3.2. Both lenses have bayonet filter attachments.
The other example observed so far seems to take simple push-on filters.
The Oplenflex is a Japanese 6×6 TLR, about which little is known. Other cameras with a similar name are the Oplen Junior, perhaps a name variant of the Palma Brilliant by Goyō Shōkai, and the Oplenflex-35, a name variant of the Firstflex 35 leaf-shuttered SLR. This tends to indicate that the Oplenflex TLR is itself a rebadged version of another TLR camera, but it is not yet known which one.