Konica FP-1

[Paul Howell]

Found a Konica FP-1 at an estate sale this morning. Paid $8.00 no lens, on the way home stopped by a battery store for the 6V battery. the battery cost me $3.95. In some respects similar to a Nikon EM, it's really a point and shoot with interchangeable lens. Shoot in shutter speed preferred or manual mode with shutter set to 1/100th. The aperture is crippled, only 2.8 to 11, regardless of how fast the lens is. ASA range is limited, 50 to 400, with 100 or 200 speed film you can shoot over and under the meter setting by fudging the ASA setting. No mirror lockup, ME, cannot freeze the exposure, there is a motor winder, remote, and interval timer. Unless shooting in manual mode and picking the Fstop to mach set shutter speed of 1/100 you are blind. I have T3 and 4, this is a nice second body. Might to pick up a Konica Zoom, 28 to 70 or 35 to 100 for it.

 

[Paul Howell]

Just shot a test roll, although top shutter speed of 1/1000, low is 1/30th, along with fastest apature of 2.8 and a top ISO of 400, not a good camera for sort of low light, and the worse mirror slap I have ever felt in a 35mm, worse than the slap of the light baffle in a Kowa leaf shutter 35mm. Need to look at the negatives to see if there any impact on sharpness.