Topcon RE Super

Topcon RE Super image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

The Topcon RE Super was one of Tokyo Optical Company's SLR camera bodies with Exakta lens mount. It was launched in 1963.

This is a historically significant camera, as its metering system reading through the lens was the first in any SLR. The photocells were located behind the reflex mirror of the camera, whose silvering had a pattern of clear lines which allowed light through to CdS photocells.

Several different reflex finder heads were attachable so that the camera could be operated with waist-level finder, pentaprism eye-level finder or a finder with loupe.

A complete system camera image by rst12 (Image rights)