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Konica Autoreflex
The Auto-Reflex and Autoreflex is a series of 35mm SLR cameras made by Konica from 1965 to 1988. All these models have the Konica AR bayonet.
The Konica AR camera lens mount was introduced in 1965 alongside the Konica Auto-Reflex (Autorex for the Japanese market). Konica sold a range of lenses for the AR-mount branded Hexanon, joined later by a budget line branded Hexar. The AR-mount features a relatively short flange focal distance of 40.50 mm for a 35 mm film SLR camera. Its diameter is 47 mm.
The focal lengths offered by Konica ranged from 21 mm to 2000 mm along with a 15 mm fisheye lens; from the start, one zoom, the 47-100mm f3.5 Hexanon AR-H, was offered. In addition, Konica also initially offered a line of Hexanon lenses with preset diaphragm operation, which were optically identical to the preceding Konica F-mount lenses, updated with mechanical interfaces directly compatible with AR-mount cameras. Adapters were available to mount older Konica F-mount lenses on AR-mount bodies.
The Konica AR-mount SLR camera and Hexanon lens lines were discontinued in late 1988.
The AR-mount lenses may be divided into several types, based mostly on cosmetics. When the Autoreflex T was introduced in 1967, Konica added a lever to signal the widest aperture setting for the through-the-lens (TTL) in-body light meter; Konica also offered a free service to retrofit the earliest AR-mount lenses with the new lever.
The Konica Auto-Reflex of 1965 was the first focal-plane-shutter auto exposure 35mm SLR; hence the name. This model and its rarer, meterless companion the Konica Auto-Reflex P are the only models where "Auto-Reflex" is hyphenated. These are also the only two SLRs that ever offered a choice of full- or half-frame exposures, switched by a lever on top of the camera. The frame size can be changed between 24×36 landscape and 18×24 portrait in mid-roll.
Autorex is the name for the domestic Japanese market. In Germany the camera was also sold as Revue Auto-Reflex.
For the Auto-Reflex, the meter sensor is mounted on the front, right-hand side of the camera. This is not TTL metering, although it does offer a shutter-preferred, auto-exposure mode. TTL auto exposure appeared in a Konica a few years later, with the Autoreflex T (FTA in Japan).
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Konica Autoreflex
The Auto-Reflex and Autoreflex is a series of 35mm SLR cameras made by Konica from 1965 to 1988. All these models have the Konica AR bayonet.
The Konica AR camera lens mount was introduced in 1965 alongside the Konica Auto-Reflex (Autorex for the Japanese market). Konica sold a range of lenses for the AR-mount branded Hexanon, joined later by a budget line branded Hexar. The AR-mount features a relatively short flange focal distance of 40.50 mm for a 35 mm film SLR camera. Its diameter is 47 mm.
The focal lengths offered by Konica ranged from 21 mm to 2000 mm along with a 15 mm fisheye lens; from the start, one zoom, the 47-100mm f3.5 Hexanon AR-H, was offered. In addition, Konica also initially offered a line of Hexanon lenses with preset diaphragm operation, which were optically identical to the preceding Konica F-mount lenses, updated with mechanical interfaces directly compatible with AR-mount cameras. Adapters were available to mount older Konica F-mount lenses on AR-mount bodies.
The Konica AR-mount SLR camera and Hexanon lens lines were discontinued in late 1988.
The AR-mount lenses may be divided into several types, based mostly on cosmetics. When the Autoreflex T was introduced in 1967, Konica added a lever to signal the widest aperture setting for the through-the-lens (TTL) in-body light meter; Konica also offered a free service to retrofit the earliest AR-mount lenses with the new lever.
The Konica Auto-Reflex of 1965 was the first focal-plane-shutter auto exposure 35mm SLR; hence the name. This model and its rarer, meterless companion the Konica Auto-Reflex P are the only models where "Auto-Reflex" is hyphenated. These are also the only two SLRs that ever offered a choice of full- or half-frame exposures, switched by a lever on top of the camera. The frame size can be changed between 24×36 landscape and 18×24 portrait in mid-roll.
Autorex is the name for the domestic Japanese market. In Germany the camera was also sold as Revue Auto-Reflex.
For the Auto-Reflex, the meter sensor is mounted on the front, right-hand side of the camera. This is not TTL metering, although it does offer a shutter-preferred, auto-exposure mode. TTL auto exposure appeared in a Konica a few years later, with the Autoreflex T (FTA in Japan).
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