Seems like a Miranda or a Topcon to me. It shpuld be somewhat older than 20 years
though...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Brigham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 4:28 PM
Subject: question
> From another chatlist:
>
> "Well, I have a large number of cameras, some of them quite normal and
> some of them very odd. And I've just dug out one of the oddest of them
> all, in some ways.
> It's an all-black 35mm SLR, about 20 years old. It has a 42mm screw
> thread mount, with a standard 50mm f1.7 lens. It has a shutter speed
> range from 4 seconds to 1/1000 electronically, and a mechanical 1/60.
> Nothing too remarkable in that, but here's where it starts getting a bit
> more interesting.
> The stopped-down metering can be switched from centre-weighted averaging
> (Av, to this camera) to spot (Sp), providing an LED read-out in the
> viewfinder. But what really makes it special is a separate device that
> clips into the hotshoe and sits on top of the shutter speed dial. This
> little device provides aperture priority automation by moving the
> shutter speed dial with a little motor!
> The spec is rounded off by a DOF preview button, multiple exposure
> lever, PC socket, self timer and shutter lock.
> Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what it could be?"
>
> Is this pentax? If so any ideas what?
>
> Rob
>
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