Cosina C2

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The Cosina C2 image by gorkola (Image rights)

The C2 is a manual-focus 35mm SLR made by Cosina using the popular K-mount bayonet for interchangeable lenses. The camera offers a choice between match-LED manual exposure setting, and aperture-priority autoexposure. In auto mode, the electronically-timed shutter offers speeds from 1/1000 sec down to 8 seconds. The speeds selectable manually are a conventional 1/1000 to 1 second, with flash sync at 1/60th sec. Pressing the transparent red button on the front of the camera activates a electronic self-timer delay of 10 seconds, with an indicator lamp whose flashing speed becomes more rapid in the final 2 seconds.

The Cosina C3 is essentially the same camera, but with the manually-selectable shutter speeds shifted to 1/2–1/2000 sec. The Cosina C1s bears a cosmetic resemblance, but lacks the electronic shutter and auto-exposure of the C2/C3.

The features of the Cosina C2 mirror those of the Cosina-manufactured Canon T60 and (with modifications) the Nikon FE10. The C2 has also been sold under other names, such as the Revue SC 5 auto and Carena 1000 SX. The C3 has appeared rebranded as the Voigtländer VSL 43, the Phoenix P2, and likely several other names.

Cosina C3 image by Javier Donoso Lozano (Image rights)

Revue SC 5 auto image by Jörg Krüger (Image rights)

Links

• Cosina C2 manual (English/French/German PDF) from Mike Butkus' OrphanCameras.com
• More views of a Cosina C3 on Flickr by Javier Donoso Lozano

In French

• Voigtlander VSL 43 (with three images of camera) from Blog fotobox.over-blog.fr

In German

• Carena 1000 SX specifications from kamera-geschichte.de