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Part of one of my on-going photo-series.

I don't usually shoot with expired film but a colleague at the CBC had a bag of film he no longer needed and tossed me a frozen bag of the stuff. I thought it would be blocky but this particular roll of Kodak Portra 160 NC held up nicely.

The camera was the Cosina-made Konica TC-X.

It is a plastic body camera with the Konica AR mount or K/AR mount.

I used Kodak's slide film, Elite Chrome 100 ASA.

The sun is directly behind the boys' heads.

This is the first of the EE Matic series and was first produced in 1963. The run may have gone until 1965.

Apparently, this camera has a shutter speed range of 1/30 to 1/250.

The focus range is 3 feet to infinity.

ISO range is 10 ASA! to 200 ASA.

Haven't been able to figure out the filter thread. Filter thread is 49mm.

The camera is auto exposure or aperture priority (I am wrong: the aperture setting is for use with a flash. According to one Japanese camera blogger, the shutter speed in that case is 1/60).

In auto mode, the shutter will lock under low light. A red flag will appear in the viewfinder window.

Unlike later EE Matic's this 1963 version does not indicate shutter speed in the viewfinder.

In auto exposure mode, one should press the shutter release half down before firing. This allows the aperture to stop down before the shutter fires.

Pressing the shutter release too quickly may cause the auto exposure shot to be taken at f2.8.

That said, the selenium meter works which is happiness.

April 6 - I did find a Japanese blogger who documented a visit through the innards of the camera. The Google translator works nicely but I wish I could read it in Japanese.

480227.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/10/konica-eematic-.html

If you are looking for an overall semi-official history of Konica, check out Kenko's timeline of both Konica and Minolta.

www.kenko-tokina.co.jp/konicaminolta/history/index.html