Fixed lens SLR?

[BMbikerider]

This morning colleague asks me "do you know one SLR that has no interchangeable lenses?" I was ...hmmmm, let me ask on APUG .

I have just thought of another. Kodak made an Instamatic SLR back around 1963/4. For the life of me I cannot remember what the lens was - It may even have been a very short zoom because these were just becoming available on high end slr's (Nikon etc) I just cannot remember the full details.

 

[AgX]

I doubt there were fix-mounted zoom lenses on SLRs before the appearance of bridge cameras. With the exception of the Minolta type 110 SLR.

 

[BMbikerider]

I doubt there were fix-mounted zoom lenses on SLRs before the appearance of bridge cameras. With the exception of the Minolta type 110 SLR.

You are probably correct. I do know that zooms (very short) were just appeareing on 8mm Cine cameras though

 

[AgX]

Yes, the small gauge cine world was quite different: much earlier spread of zoom and high-speed lenses, but also adjustable eyepieces at reflex cameras. (On the latter seemingly the design departments of still and cine cameras were miles apart...)

 

[Ian Grant]

I doubt there were fix-mounted zoom lenses on SLRs before the appearance of bridge cameras. With the exception of the Minolta type 110 SLR.

The Nikorex Zoom has already been mentioned here in this thread, introduced in 1963, that's a fixed mount Zoom lens SLR. I think there may have been other short lived competitors.

Ian

 

[AgX]

Thank you, I was not alert...

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I have just thought of another. Kodak made an Instamatic SLR back around 1963/4. For the life of me I cannot remember what the lens was - It may even have been a very short zoom because these were just becoming available on high end slr's (Nikon etc) I just cannot remember the full details.

The Kodak Instamatic Reflex had interchangeable lenses:

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Kodak_Instamatic_Reflex

It was made in Germany.

 

[BMbikerider]

The image in the link was nothing like the ones that were in camera shops in UK. The one I saw was very much more basic. It had a selenium meter not what is obviously a CDS Cell.

Going on to the mention of the Nikkorex fixed lens reflex. The lens was not the best than Nikon ever made which may have been the reason why it was discontinued and not developed further.

 

[Ian Grant]

Topcon Wink Mirror is another fixed lens SLR, the Wink S Mirror was interchangeable lenses.

Ian

 

[PaulQ]

Yashica Samurai.

 

[AgX]

The Yashica Samurai makes part of the group of "bridge"cameras (mentioned in post #14).

 

[Arklatexian]

Contaflex I and II .

+1

 

[GRHazelton]

Don't forget the Komaflex S, a 127 roll-film SLR, leaf shutter, no instant return mirror.

 

[Oren Grad]

The Yashica Samurai makes part of the group of "bridge"cameras (mentioned in post #14).

Also in this group: Chinon Genesis, Ricoh Mirai, Canon Photura/Epoca/Autoboy Jet.

 

[AgX]

Strange thing: I do not remember ever having read at Apug a bridge camera being used.

 

[MattKing]

Strange thing: I do not remember ever having read at Apug a bridge camera being used.

I've commented previously about how one of the Olympus IS models served as an exceptional travel camera for friends who traveled a lot!

 

[Ian Grant]

Ensign Speed Reflex, there was also a simpler model,with just T & I and no focal plane shutter

KW made some quite similar cameras which are almost copies, all fixed lens SLRs.

Ian