Review The Konica Auto S3


Review The Konica Auto S3

The Konica Auto S3 sports a 38mm f/1.8 lens with 6 elements in 4 groups. Wider than the lenses on previous 'Auto S' cameras (45-47 mm). Faster, by more than a stop, than the 38mm found on the standard C35 cameras. It is a handy little lens. It seems to have had lots of plaudits and attracts a lot of very favourable comparisons.


Konica Auto S3 Review

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The Konica Auto S3 is a versatile 35mm, shutter priority, rangefinder camera produced from 1973 through 1977. The S3 has a fast (f/1.8) 38mm, six-element lens that has.a reputation for producing extremely sharp and detailed images.


Review The Konica Auto S3

The Konica Auto S3 is a coupled-rangefinder, leaf-shuttered 35mm camera with shutter-priority automatic exposure and a very innovative Guide Number (GN) based system for automatic flash exposures. Some have classed the Konica as one of the best compact rangefinders of the 1970s, along with the Canon GIII QL17.


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The Konica Auto S, straight up, is a dependable 35mm rangefinder. It is big and heavy for a rangefinder (it weighs 742g) but it is also full of lovable features that any rangefinder fan will surely love. To tee off, the Auto S is the predecessor of the more famous Auto S2 and Auto S3 cameras. They are also rangefinder cameras with noticeable.


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Konica Auto S3 Hexanon 1.8/38

The Konica Auto S3 and Konica C35 FD are essentially the same camera. Their differences are only cosmetic. The Auto S3 was available only in black with the distance scale on the lens barrel displayed in feet and in meters. The Konica C35 FD came in both silver and in black with the distance scale only represented in meters.


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The Konica Auto S3 is often thought of as one of the greatest little Japanese compact rangefinders. Its lens, the key element of any camera, is a Hexanon 38mm f1.8 that Modern Photography magazine (in its May 1975 issue) qualified as one of the best semi wide-angles of this speed they had ever tested. These tests produced 64 to 82 lpm at the center at all apertures.


Konica Auto S3 Review

The two standout features of the Auto S3 compared to its cheaper siblings were a shutter priority semi automatic exposure system in place of the fully automatic system and a faster lens, a 38mm f1.8 Hexanon instead of the 38mm f2.8 lens.


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I have the Japanese version, the Konica C35 (FD). I also was able to hunt down the Auto-Up 3 made specifically for the (Konica C35 FD/Konica Auto S3) camera. A close up lens attachment that allows you to position your camera within a range of 3.3 feet to 1.6 feet to your subject. I have been searching for a decent price for this attachment for.


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Review The Konica Auto S3

Konica Auto S2 & III series are also worth repairing if ever in need. Whereas Canonet QL17 GIII sold well (great marketing), they have proven to be rather unreliable over time and a real challenge to repair (special tools needed, hard to access & clean blades or remove elements, complex interlocks, etc.).


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Konica Auto S3. Posted 3-23-2021. Konica auto S - Konica Auto SE - Konica Auto S2. On-line camera manual library - M. Butkus, Librarian. If you find this manual useful, how about a donation of $3 to: M. Butkus, 29 Lake Ave., High Bridge, NJ 08829-1701. and send your e-mail address.


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1. The Konica Auto S-3's CdS meter, heart of the automatic exposure system, operates on a mercury battery cell. As a quick check on battery condition, look through the camera viewfinder to see that the meter needle swings as you move the camera in an arc from the sky to the ground.


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The Konica Auto S3 is a versatile 35mm, shutter-priority rangefinder camera. The camera is very similar in most respects to the Vivitar 35ES, Revue 400SE and Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII, and is believed to have been built by Cosina for Konica.


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