Porst Compact-reflex

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German retailer Porst offered the compact-reflex (no suffixes; styled in all lowercase) as one of it many rebadgings of SLR cameras manufactured by Cosina. This was based on the CSM, a somewhat late stopdown metering camera for 42mm screw lenses.

As with the Cosina model, a notable if quirky accessory was an AEC adapter which enabled aperture-priority autoexposure using a bulky and noisy box which physically rotates the shutter speed dial, based on signals from the "A" socket above the conventional PC socket.

Links

• Porst Compact-reflex user manual (pdf)(in German) at l'image latente
• A YouTube (1:44) video shows the compact-reflex and the AEC adapter in action, from Greig Clifford
• Porst Compact Reflex PDF manual at www.OrphanCameras.com