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 Asahi Asahiflex IIb/Tower 23 - 1954                    New! WidePhotoViewer for iPhone/iPod/iPad       
      

First widely-available SLR with instant-return mirror
$99.50 with f3.5 lens in 1957 ($772 in 2010 dollars)

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Here's the Tower 23 in a 1956 Sears Canera Catalog:

Here's an ad from the April 1957 issue of Modern Photography, which I believe to be the IIb's first:

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This ad is from the May 1957 issue of Modern Photography:

 

 


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