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This is a 1954 build 6x6 Japanese SLR Taiyodo Koki Co. Reflex Beauty (I). It is the first model.
The film is loaded from right to left, so the advance knob is on the left and the lever on the right is to arm the focal-plane shutter.
The speed selector has 6 positions : 500, 200, 100, 50, 25 and B.
The lens is a Canter TKK 1:3.5 F=75mm probably coated and can be removed by a screw thread. The focus is made by a ring in the middle and the aperture ring at the front is going from 3.5 to 22.
The release button and a cable release thread are attached to the right of the mirror box.
There is an accessory shoe and a sunken PC synch socket on the left, and there are strap lugs on each side. The tripod thread is placed under the mirror box and there are two film flanges under the bottom plate, allowing the camera to stand on a table.

 
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Gorgeous !

Love how the top of the viewfinder looks like a Hasselblad.

What other lenses can be mounted on this body?
 

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Many years ago I had a Beauty 35mm rangefinder with a coated 45mm f1.9 Canter six element lens, Seikosha shutter 1 to 1/500 sec. The lens was very good! When the shutter "blew up" I replaced the Beauty with a Komaflex S, which I still have. It needs a good CLA; if 127 film were more available and cheaper I'd spring for the work!
Mike Butkus' Orphan Camera site https://www.butkus.org/chinon/ doesn't seem to have a manual for your camera, sad to say.
 

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Funny, I just got a Beauty Lightomatic LM in the mail yesterday with a blown shutter! I have it stripped down and am attempting to repair the "Salad" of shutter and aperture blades that fell out from behind the front lens element. It's a bit daunting, but the camera was so inexpensive I have little to lose. I got the shutter disasembled last night, cleaned and reinstalled the aperture blades and will tackle next the shutter blades. Reassembly will be the big hurdle...

If successful, I will be able to place it alongside my Lightomatic II, which is near pristine.

Beauty made some very good cameras, but they can be a bear to service; especially the Copal SVL which has those danged pc connection wires that break so easily and fiddly little screws and insulator washers for the pc connector!

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Funny, I just got a Beauty Lightomatic LM in the mail yesterday with a blown shutter! I have it stripped down and am attempting to repair the "Salad" of shutter and aperture blades that fell out from behind the front lens element. It's a bit daunting, but the camera was so inexpensive I have little to lose. I got the shutter disasembled last night, cleaned and reinstalled the aperture blades and will tackle next the shutter blades. Reassembly will be the big hurdle...

If successful, I will be able to place it alongside my Lightomatic II, which is near pristine.

Beauty made some very good cameras, but they can be a bear to service; especially the Copal SVL which has those danged pc connection wires that break so easily and fiddly little screws and insulator washers for the pc connector!

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Ooogh ! More power to you. I'm not about to tackle shutter work.
 
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I suspect your camera and the Agiflex use the same smaller screw thread mount, but a bit more research is needed.
Yes it seems to be the same mount (40mm) but the back of the lens has a beveled angle on one side (top) so that the mirror don't hit the lens.
I don't know if other lenses have that too...
Wow, what a beauty!
Thank you !
 

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Gorgeous!!!
 

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I got the shutter disasembled last night, cleaned and reinstalled the aperture blades and will tackle next the shutter blades. Reassembly will be the big hurdle...
In case you don't know already, one trick is to assemble the blades wetted with naphta. Surface tension keeps them from jumping around. Of course they must be 100% clean to start with. Once assembled, drain the naphta with tissue papaer and be patient until it has all evaporated. Good luck.
 
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