MINOLTA AUTOCORD VALUE PC
There’s a PC sync socket for flash, a 40.5mm filter thread, and although Lubitels are often associated with ‘toy cameras’, the 75mm triplet lens can produce a reasonable result. However, what you get for your money isn’t all bad. In essence, it’s a simplified version of the company’s original 166, which was designed to be cheaper to manufacture and buy. Or a picture.Lomo’s Lubitel 166B is an often-maligned plastic TLR that emerged from the Soviet Union in 1980.
MINOLTA AUTOCORD VALUE SERIAL NUMBER
If you can't find it, contact me and tell me the serial number of your Autocord, the name of the shutter, if there is a lightmeter cell, if there is a special counter. If it's a ''24 exp / 12 exp'' counter, it's a III or CDS III model.įor more details, see the ''Models'' page. If it's a ''For 24 exp push up after 12'' counter with a Citizen MVL, it's a RG-3.1 or II or CDS II model If it's a ''For 24 exp push up after 12'' counter with an Optiper MVL, it's a RG-2.1 model If it's a ''For 24 exp push up after 12'' meter with a Seikosha Rapid, it's a L-3 model If it's a 4x4 counter with a Seikosha Rapid, it's a L-2 model If it's a 4x4 counter with a Citizen MXV, it's a RA-2 model If it's a 4x4 counter with an Optiper MXS, it's a RA model If Citizen MVL, it's a CDS model (CDS I or CDS II or CDS III) (read step 3) If Citizen MVL, it's a RG-3 model or I or II or III or CDS I or CDS II or CDS III (read step 2)Ģ) lightmeter cell if your Autocord has one: If Seikosha MX, it's an Export or L-MX model (read step 2) If Citizen MXV, it's a MXV-2 or RA-2 model (read step 3) If Seikosha Rapid, it's a L or L-2 or L-3 model (read step 3) If Optiper MXS, it's an A or A-2 or RA model (read step 3) The model depends on a few characteristics :ġ) the shutter: its name is written between the two lenses or under the taking lens. Thus, the prices can vary from simple to tenfold. To conclude, the Autocord is an excellent bi-objective reflex camera which give impressive results for a very correct price. The last versions possess an integrated CDS lightmeter - this works with a 1,35V mercury battery, no more manufactured alternative solutions exist : zinc-air batteries or battery carrier provided with a resistance (read the 'Tips and tricks' page). There were many variants of the Autocord certain versions possess masks to realize 4x4 and 4x5 views, others accept the 220 film size. The Autocord can also receive many accessories: sun visor and filters in bayonet 1 (bay 1), Minolta Autopole ( specific polarizing filter), Minolta Paradjuster (for the correction of the parallax), Minolta Panorama Head (to realize panoramic views). The Autocord has plethoric features: accessory shoe, flash plug, sync for magnesium bulb or electric flash (not on all models), tripod mount, trigger lock, sport finder, overprint mechanism, built-in photometer on some models. The earlier shutters (MXS and MXV) are limited to 1/400th sec, all other shutters go to 1/500th sec. They are all central type with five small blades, wich allows a high speed synchronization of the flash. The shutter can be Optiper, Seikosha or Citizen. Actually, the difference is really difficult to establish, especially on average enlargements, but the value for money is really excellent! The quality of the optics is impressive, some people assert that this objective is comparable to the Planar, Xenar and even Xenotar. The taking lens is a Rokkor (Chiyoko or Minolta following the versions) 1:3.5 f=75mm and the viewing lens is a 1:3.2 f=75mm a little more bright. The film is bent after having been exposed and not before! The flatness of the film is thus excellent, better than in any other bi-objectives. Contrary to all other bi-objectives, the film is placed in the upper part of the camera and the empty reel in the bottom part. It is however about the only weak point of this camera : the global construction quality is excellent and can be compared, without blushing, with any bi-objectives, inclusive the Rolleiflex.Īnother interesting characteristic of the Autocord is the route of the film. The focus is soft and easy to realize if the extremity of the focus lever is not broken! It is a piece of Zamak and it is definitively a weak point on this camera - always think of verifying the focus lever state before buying an Autocord! The focus is set by a lever situated under the objectives (and not by a button on the side of the camera, contrary to most of the other bi-objectives). The Autocord is a bi-objectives reflex camera or TLR for Twin Lenses Reflex, made by Minolta from 1955 till 1966.Īnother TLR among the others? No! The Autocord is rather different from Rolleiflex, Rolleicord and other Yashica Mat.įirst of all, the focusing system is constituted by a bronze hélicoïde : this system is upper to those of the other bi-objectives because it is impossible to unsettle!
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