Minolta SRT102/SRT Super - First camera to display shutter speed & aperture in viewfinder?

[Autonerd]

Well, the Pentax KX - 1975 - wasn't the earliest, but it is wonderful.

MX had this feature, as did the K2 DMD (but not the regular K2).

If you're looking for this feature at a bargain price -- Ricoh XR-1 (mechanical) and XR-2/XR-2s (electronic) have it, as do their Sears counterparts, the KS-1000 and KS Auto.

BTW, I'm with you, GRH -- KX is my first and favorite, though I do love my K2, and my Sears KS Auto is my workhorse. I've had little luck finding a working XR-1.

Aaron

 

[xkaes]

I enjoy taking pics of them as well as with them!

Regarding the original topic, I suppose that leaves out all M42 as well as Olympus OM cameras.

Like you, I thought the original topic was Minolta SRT cameras and if they had the full info viewfinders. Some did, some didn't,. Olympus was pretty lax in this regard.

 

[Chan Tran]

I think the way of displaying the aperture in viewfinder like that of the Nikon F2 Photomic (DP-1, DP-2 and DP-3) is an expensive way of doing it. So Nikon came out with the ADR for the AI series.

 

[250swb]

The 35RC (1970) -- and it's better brother, the 35RD (1975) -- show the set shutter speed and the automatically-set f-stop in the viewfinder. There were MANY similar cameras in that era -- most available very inexpensively:

http://www.subclub.org/minman/leanmean.pdf

Not only did the Olympus RC35 show both shutter speed and aperture in the viewfinder in 1970 but it was the first camera that could be used fully manual or automatic.