Alpa Si 2000
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| 1977 advertising image |
In 1977 Alpa was still producing its premium, hand-assembled, Alpa 11si in Switzerland. But the company made an odd effort to branch out into the mid-price SLR segment, by collaborating with Chinon to offer the Si 2000.
This was a restyled version of the Chinon CE II Memotron, including its use of the M42 thread mount. Advertising boasted of the sturdy die-cast zinc top panel, which was specific to the Alpa version. The Chinon offered an unusual autoexposure scheme, where shutter timing is set automatically using a light reading taken in the instant after the lens stops down (there is no open-aperture metering).
Links
- Alpa Si 2000 manuals from Mike Butkus's OrphanCameras.com
- Early advertising for the Si 2000 in the August, 1977, Popular Photography (Vol. 81, No. 2; page 57)
- Alpa Si 2000 profiled in Modern Photography's 1978 annual guide to available cameras (Vol. 42, No. 12; page 103)
- Alpa Si 2000 video presentation by YouTuber ilyshko74
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| Unique strap buttons image by EvisNP (Image rights) |
