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Modern Photography's Guide to 45 Top Cameras for 1968


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Thanks for this post, Marc. Those one-page camera guides are very good!

 

1968 was a good year for cameras - I found several of my favorites featured in the list. Keppler offers an explanation of how the mysterious Minolta CLC metering system ws conceived; JDM will appreciate the bit on Prakticas in THTH.

 

In the ads section Barnack Leicas were going for half a Pen FT, which were priced at half the new Minolta SRT-101.

 

All the best for 2018 and thanks for your contributions!

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Mike - Glad you like these.

 

Julio - Also glad you liked these. In the late '60s there was no real consensus as to the best methods of CdS metering. Designers were trying various methods. I remember that Minolta was proud of their system.

 

All the best to you both for 2018.

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Thanks for all the effort in posting these. Just about my SLR wish list. Interesting to note that there is a comment wrt the Ricoh Singlex, having the apparently new idea of pulling up the rewind knob to open the film door. I wonder if this was the first camera to use this function that became almost ubiquitous? I have one, and it’s a nice camera, although the Copal square shutter sounds like someone closing a car door!
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