After briefly dropping the KS Super from its catalog, Sears brought out its near twin the KS Super II in the 1985 Fall/Winter catalog.[1]
The reduced price of USD $170 may have helped its popularity, yet they've manage to remove even one more feature (versus the original KS Auto or the KS-1, making the model designation a cruel mockery. Specifically, even the B for "Bulb" is gone, leaving only Auto, Lock, and the X-sync speed as options on the top dial. Otherwise it seems quite unchanged from the KS Super. 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.
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