On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
They were well behind Nikon, which had a Shutter-priority version of the F2 in 1974 or so. Not sure about Canon, and Contax was about the same time as Pentax IIRC (MM lenses were a mid-80's development, It's the Contax/Yashica mount that's 7 years older than KA)
I was a Nikon user at the time ... are you speaking of the F2 head with the servo control that connected to the aperture ring? They're pretty rare and didn't work very well.
The first Nikon F camera with real AE capability was the F3, which had aperture priority AE only.
Godfrey
