Vivitar XC-3 w/ XC-A...made by Cosina
My guess!
jfd
At 03:28 PM 08/17/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>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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