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The Konica Auto
S, built between 1963 and 1965, was the first 35 mm auto
exposure camera on the market. It has a CdS meter and a
shutter-priority automatic-exposure
mode. Besides that, it has many more features that
distinguished from other cameras at the time: the lens is a
fast 47 mm f/1.9 hexanon of high optical quality, the
framelines in the viewfinder are parallax corrected in
position as well as in size and the light meter can be adapted
to low-light situations by a switch on the front.
This rock solid camera was the predecessor of the well known Konica Auto S2, which is similar in size and design, but has the light-meter window in the lens barrel. |
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