Front cover
MINOLTA SR-2 SINGLE LENS REFLEX SYSTEM A new high in practical automation for Single Lens Reflex Cameras |
Back cover
CHIYODA KOGAKU SEIKO K. K. OSAKA, JAPAN Cat.# SR-101 Printed in Japan handwritten note: 10 5 59 |
Page 2 Just advance the film lever, and ... Click here to see a blow-up of the lower row of pictures. |
Page 3 Just press the shutter release, and ... Click here to see a blow-up of the lower row of pictures. Very uncommon is the chrome ring around the frame counter on the camera pictured at the top of the page. It is presumably a prototype and not an early production model. See next page, too. |
Page 4
Choose the Rokkor Lenses ... Here again, the mystic chrome ring model is shown. Auto W. Rokkor-HG 1:2.8 f=35mm This is a very early version with a extraordinarily long focusing grip. Click here for a blow-up. Tele Rokkor-PG 1:2.8 f=135mm The early pre-set version. Click here for a blow-up. |
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... to suit your needs. Auto Rokkor-PF 1:1.8 f=55mm Click here for a blow-up. Auto Tele Rokkor-QE 1:3.5 f=100mm Click here for a blow-up. Tele Rokkor-QF 1:3.5 f=200mm Very unusual lens. Similar to the Tele Rokkor-PF 180/2.5, which is shown in early SR-2 user manuals. This is surely not a production lens, and it looks very different to the later Auto Tele Rokkor version. Click here for a blow-up. Tele Rokkor-QF 1:4 f=25cm Short-term production lens. Click here for a blow-up. |
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... for every situation. Note the lack of the P-Adapter for lenses in Praktica mount (M42). The polarizing filter has a small edge on the front end, so that one can clamp on the lens shade. |
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Minolta SR-2 Be sure not to miss the scan of a similar SR-2 brochure on Antony Hands Rokkorfiles. While the cover looks very similar, the content is completely different - and includes some very nice oddities! |
Page 9
The film pressure plate identifies the pictured camera as the early model with chrome DIN/ASA conversion dial on the back of the film door. The later model with black dial has a chrome screw there. This double page is the inside of a fold-out, with page 8 beeing the inside of the back cover and page 9 beeing the other side of page 7. So, if you are looking at page 6/7, you can expand page 7 and see this map. |