Difference between revisions of "Ricoh XR-1"
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*[http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/ricoh-filmcamera/cameralist/XR-1-2.html Ricoh XR-1 & XR-2] at [http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/index.html Ricoh Japan] | *[http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/ricoh-filmcamera/cameralist/XR-1-2.html Ricoh XR-1 & XR-2] at [http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/index.html Ricoh Japan] | ||
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*[http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/ricoh-filmcamera/cameralist/XR-1s-2s.html Ricoh XR-1s & XR-2s] at [http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/index.html Ricoh Japan] | *[http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/ricoh-filmcamera/cameralist/XR-1s-2s.html Ricoh XR-1s & XR-2s] at [http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/index.html Ricoh Japan] | ||
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| Ricoh XR-1 image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
The XR-1 is a 1977 SLR from Ricoh, introduced alongside the autoexposure XR-2 as the company's first SLRs to use K-mount lenses.
The XR-1 requires two 1.5v silver-oxide batteries only to power its match-needle light meter, using CdS cells within the pentaprism housing. The vertically-traveling, metal focal-plane shutter is entirely mechanical. This offers speeds from 1 to 1/1000 sec. and a 1/125 flash sync speed. Unusually, there is a multiple-exposure function provided, using the "M.E" button on the rear of the camera, below the wind lever. There is a widow above the lens aperture ring which allows the selected f/stop to be viewed through the viewfinder.
The 1979 XR-1s version is also able to accept a motor winder.
Links
- Ricoh XR-1 manual and XR-1s from Mike Butkus' OrphanCameras.com
- Ricoh advertisement announcing the XR-1 and XR-2 in the
December 1977 Popular Photography; scan courtesy voxphoto.
In Japanese
- Ricoh XR-1 & XR-2 at Ricoh Japan
- Rebadged as the Sears KS 1000
- Ricoh XR-1s & XR-2s at Ricoh Japan
