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The bayonet-mount Super A lenses used the logo 'Chiyoko' before 1958, and 'Chiyoda Kogaku' from 1958 on: | The bayonet-mount Super A lenses used the logo 'Chiyoko' before 1958, and 'Chiyoda Kogaku' from 1958 on: | ||
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* 3.5cm f3.5 Rokkor 35mm wide angle lens, with 4 elements in 3 groups<ref> Cooper, "The Minolta Manual" 1959, pp77-88.</ref><ref>See also [[Minolta 35]] regarding [[39mm_screw_lenses|Leica-thread-mount]] 'Super Rokkor' lenses.</ref>. | * 3.5cm f3.5 Rokkor 35mm wide angle lens, with 4 elements in 3 groups<ref> Cooper, "The Minolta Manual" 1959, pp77-88.</ref><ref>See also [[Minolta 35]] regarding [[39mm_screw_lenses|Leica-thread-mount]] 'Super Rokkor' lenses.</ref>. | ||
* 5cm f1.8 Super Rokkor 50mm normal lens, with 6 elements in 5 groups. | * 5cm f1.8 Super Rokkor 50mm normal lens, with 6 elements in 5 groups. | ||
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* 10cm f3.8 Tele Rokkor 100mm short telephoto lens. | * 10cm f3.8 Tele Rokkor 100mm short telephoto lens. | ||
* 13.5cm f4.5 Tele Rokkor 135mm telephoto lens, with 4 elements. | * 13.5cm f4.5 Tele Rokkor 135mm telephoto lens, with 4 elements. | ||
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The Minolta Super A is an interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder camera system introduced in March 1957[1]. Image format was 24x36 on 135 film. The Super A featured a brightline finder with parallax correction and a unique button-and-lever-lock bayonet lens mount. Its behind-the-lens leaf shutter is a Seikosha-MX with speeds B, 1sec to 1/400sec, and M or X flash synchronization. The Super A system included an accessory shoe-mounted coupled selenium meter with separate selenium-cell amplifier, seven interchangeable lenses with accessory shoe-mounted finders for the wide angle and telephoto lenses.
The bayonet-mount Super A lenses used the logo 'Chiyoko' before 1958, and 'Chiyoda Kogaku' from 1958 on:
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- ↑ JCII/Lewis, ed. "The History of Japanese Cameras" p195.
- ↑ Cooper, "The Minolta Manual" 1959, pp77-88.
- ↑ See also Minolta 35 regarding Leica-thread-mount 'Super Rokkor' lenses.
Links
- Minolta Rangefinders (including Super A)
- Flickr image of Super A by fortinbras
- Minolta Super A on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand