Konica Auto S1.6

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Konica Auto S1.6
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The 1967 Konica Auto S1.6 is for all practical purposes the last of the Auto S series and an update the earlier Auto S2 offering a 1/3-stop faster f/1.6 lens. It is also the last Konica rangefinder model for many, many years to offer fully manually exposure control (it also offers the shutter priority auto-exposure mode pioneered on the Auto S models). As a result, the Auto S1.6 can be used without any battery powering the internal meter, simply setting all exposure factors manually using a separate light meter or by eye. All subsequent Konica rangefinder models until the Hexar series cameras in the 1990s are auto-exposure-only, making them dependent upon a battery and a working, accurate metering system.

The Auto S1.6 is also one of the first Konica rangefinders to be fitted with a standard hot shoe (The other model that saw this feature added a short time earlier is the Konica Auto SE Electronic. The Konica IIIM of 1959 offered a hot shoe too, but it was non-standard and only usable with a special flash.)

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