Known as the Darth Vader camera, and rightly so. This is a fairly rare camera and sold for $510.00 when new and the was over 20 years ago! The features on this camera are just amazing as is the unique design. I found a write up about it in the New York Times which I am pasting below this ad. The camera will come with a fresh battery. It has normal wear overall, usual scuffing of the plastic, nothing that affects use. I'll take $200.00 shipped anywhere in the lower 48 US. Overseas shipping is extra and must be insured and claimed for full purchase price. PM me if interested please. Thanks, Mike.
Konica felt so strongly about its new line -- featuring the Aiborg 35-millimeter compact ($510) -- that it rented the Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey in September to announce it. Konica describes the design as "futuristic, black, ellipsoidal." Most people do a double take on seeing the Aiborg for the first time, since it looks like something out of Darth Vader's world.
This is a pocket-sized camera (6 by 3 1/2 by 3 inches) with autofocusing. Its zoom lens is packed with new features. It is billed as the first camera to include a "moving-frame auto-focusing system." By using the zoom/focus field button to manipulate the image in the viewfinder, the photographer can determine which area of the picture should receive focus priority.
Another compelling feature is that it has automatic parallax compensation for close-up work. As the camera closes in on the subject, an auto-focus frame changes electronically to show what the camera is seeing.
It is hard to believe that a camera this small has a built-in zoom lens that runs from 35 to 105 millimeters and 19 preprogrammed settings for different kinds of photography -- night scenes, portraits, shooting from a television screen, one-push multiple exposure, spot metering, montage backlighted subject, contrast control, montage, long exposure control and time lapse -- and seven flash controls. The built-in flash recharges in about four seconds.
Konica felt so strongly about its new line -- featuring the Aiborg 35-millimeter compact ($510) -- that it rented the Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey in September to announce it. Konica describes the design as "futuristic, black, ellipsoidal." Most people do a double take on seeing the Aiborg for the first time, since it looks like something out of Darth Vader's world.
This is a pocket-sized camera (6 by 3 1/2 by 3 inches) with autofocusing. Its zoom lens is packed with new features. It is billed as the first camera to include a "moving-frame auto-focusing system." By using the zoom/focus field button to manipulate the image in the viewfinder, the photographer can determine which area of the picture should receive focus priority.
Another compelling feature is that it has automatic parallax compensation for close-up work. As the camera closes in on the subject, an auto-focus frame changes electronically to show what the camera is seeing.
It is hard to believe that a camera this small has a built-in zoom lens that runs from 35 to 105 millimeters and 19 preprogrammed settings for different kinds of photography -- night scenes, portraits, shooting from a television screen, one-push multiple exposure, spot metering, montage backlighted subject, contrast control, montage, long exposure control and time lapse -- and seven flash controls. The built-in flash recharges in about four seconds.
