Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 14:51:49 -0400
References: <B8FF8FE7.1F5DE%joseph@yao.com>

- --On Thursday, May 09, 2002 02:31:03 AM +0800 Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com> 
wrote:

> on 9/5/02 2:25 am, Douglas Herr at telyt@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> Wasn't it a Pentax (model escapes my memory) that introduced
>> aperture-priority exposure automation on an interchangable-lens SLR?  I
>> think it was 1970 or so.
>
> The first Pentax that offered auto exposure was the Spotmatic ES with M42
> screw mount.  But I am not sure if it was world's first AE SLR.  I believe
> it was a Konica?

I'm pretty sure it was the Konica Autoreflex, which was shutter priority 
only.

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Rolfe Tessem
rolfe@ldp.com
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.

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