Nikon SLR that isn't a Nikon?

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I was looking at my Nikkorex F the other day (it was manufactured by Mamiya) and I started wondering...were there any other Nikon SLRs that were branded by Nikon, but made by someone else?

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Photo Finish - timestamp is the same! Probably my huge nose crossed the line first...
 
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Thanks for the replies...

BTW, the winner was
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I guess it depends on what one means by good. The Chinonj body that Chinon based the FE-10 is based on is good meaning an average consumer grade body, likely as good as the FG or FG 20 and better than the EM but your right not up to level as the Nikon FE or FA, or FM. Don't know what they are going for, if price point is right, still a decent second body, on the other hand if more than a FG I would go with the FG. And the FM-10, yeah 100% agree, the K mount version I have is nothing to write home about.
 

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Nikon's TTL metering began in the Nikkormat FT and Nikon F Photomic in 1965.

I was there with my pro parents. They got a Nikkorex F in 1963 - our first SLR. Then we got a Nikkormat FT in 1965 (when I was 10). It was our first camera with a built-in light meter and quite exciting at the time. (Pic: Me with the Nikkorex and 50/2 in 1966 at National Geographic Explorer's Hall in Washington - my dad was carrying the Nikkormat FT and 43-86/3.5, we were both shooting Ektachrome.)



For us, the Nikkorex with Nikkor 50/2 did exactly what it was intended to do: demonstrate the quality of Nikon SLRs and lenses at a reasonable price. We'd be acquiring many more Nikon and Nikkormat bodies and Nikkor lenses over the next 15 years. (But we never made the leap across the AI boundary.)
 

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To the extent that I recall... I think it's a model of a one- or two-man submarine/submersible used for underwater exploration at the time.

Hey, it was the age of Jacques Cousteau!

Addendum: I wasn't far off. Try Googling "Jacques Cousteau diving saucer"!
 
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Les Sarile said:
Like the other cameras of the day, no internal coupled meter.
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Hum, Topcon Uni TTL with shutter speed automation, 1964, Kowa H 1963. not TTL but coupled, Spotmatic 1964 , the Ricoh M42 version had coupled meters, as did the Konica F 1959 . Not sure when the first Yashica M42 with metering came along, Miranda Sensorex 1966 and Petri 1974 all came to the party later.
 

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Don't know much about the Konica F but from the images I can see, it has a selenium meter on top - and outside, of the body and therefore cannot be TTL right?

From what I know, the Topcon RE Super is the first production SLR with TTL metering released in 1963. Pentax had the prototype Spot-Matic in 1960 that had spot TTL metering but they released the TTL metering Spotmatic 1964 after the Topcon. The Nikkorex F was released in 1962 ahead of these.
 

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From what I understand while not TTL the meter was coupled to the shutter speed and aperture with a match needle in the viewfinder. I can understand why Nikon allowed Ricoh to use a modified version of the F mount, one that allowed Nikon lens user to buy lens that would mount on the Ricoh, as cheap second body to the F, but could not mount Ricoh lens on a Nikon body, not cheap lens. How many lens it Ricoh make in the modified F mount?
 
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