View source for Sears KS Super II

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After briefly dropping the [[Sears KS Super | KS Super]] from their lineup, US retail giant [[Sears]] brought out its near-twin [[SLR]] the '''KS Super II''' in their 1985 Fall/Winter catalog.<ref> See it on [https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1985-Sears-Fall-Winter-Catalog/1088 page 1088 of the scanned catalog] from [https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ Musetechnical's "Christmas Catalogs & Holiday Wishbooks."]</ref>

The reduced price of USD $170 may have helped its popularity. Yet having removed even one more feature, the grand model name seems like a cruel mockery. Specifically, now the B for "[[Bulb]]" is gone, leaving only '''L'''ock, '''A'''uto, and the '''X'''-[[flash sync |sync]] speed as options on the top dial. Otherwise it seems quite unchanged from the 1983 [[Sears KS Super | KS Super]]. The stripping away of features once present in the [[Sears KS Auto | original KS Auto]] or the [[Sears KSX | KSX]] is now complete. Sears may have correctly judged that the buyers of entry-level SLRs just wanted the look and feel of a "fancy camera" without ever using the features of one. It remains one of the more commonly-seen Sears models, e.g. in eBay auctions.

Once again, the camera is a rebadged [[Ricoh]] made in Japan, based on the [[Ricoh XR6 | XR 6]], although the stripped-back features do not seem to match any other model sold under Ricoh's own name.
 
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*[https://www.cameramanuals.org/sears/sears_ks_super_ii.pdf KS Super II manual] at Mike Butkus' [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/ OrphanCameras.com]

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