Overview | |
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Type | 35 mm SLR |
Lens | |
Lens mount | Minolta SR-mount |
Focusing | |
Focus | Manual focus SLR |
Exposure/Metering | |
Exposure | Shutter and aperture priority autoexposure |
Flash | |
Flash | Hot shoe only; no PC connector |
General | |
Dimensions | 51 × 86 × 136 mm, 560 g |
A single-lens reflex camera (SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured. With twin lens reflex and rangefinder cameras, the viewed image could be significantly different from the final image. When the shutter button is pressed on a mechanical SLR, the mirror flips out of the light path, allowing light to pass through to the light receptor, allowing the image to be captured.
Medium format SLR by Hasselblad (Model 1600F), Sweden
Medium format SLR by Bronica (Model S2), Japan. Bronica's later model—the Bronica EC—was the first medium format SLR camera to use an electrically operated focal-plane shutter
The 1952 (Pentax) Asahiflex, Japan's first single-lens reflex camera.
The Contaflex III a single-lens reflex camera from West Germany from 1957, with additional 115 mm lens
The 35 mm film-based Nikon F, 1959, the world's second single-lens reflex system camera. The first was Kamera-Werke's Praktica.
Canon Pellix, 1965, the first camera to incorporate a stationary pellicle mirror.
The Pentax Spotmatic IIa, 1971
Olympus The 35 mm film-based Olympus OM-2 (1975), which was the first SLR to measure light for electronic flash off the film plane.
Casio RF2 35mm film SLR
Nikon F5 professional SLR, 1996