Yes, I suppose, but Konica went out of the SLR business until they
recently bought Minolta. I though we were speaking of when cameras
gained both, shutter and aperture priority in both bodies. I don't
think that Konica ever did that, though there are one or two bodies
after the T3 I've never actually seen.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Actually Konica was way before Canon in shutter priority - automic
aperture control. They started in the early sixities if not earlier.
Their Autoreflex seiries were quite successful with reliable exposures.
Wasn't it a hot debate about what was best shutter or aperture
priority? Seems strange these days but I guess when cameras did not
have all the features it depended on what one should do.
Cheers,
Ronald
P. J. Alling
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:14:35 -0800
Canon pioneered Shutter Priority Automation while Pentax was investing
in aperture priority automation, pretty much contemporary IIRC. (I was
selling Cameras Retail and the AE-1 was along side the ME and K2 in the
display cases), The AE-1 meter was a PITA to use in manual mode, I
think they used a trap needle system in their automation. Minolta beat
both to punch with both in the same camera, I believe. Canon was next
and I can't remember if Nikon beat Pentax or not.
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