Konica auto S with 5 elements lens?

sonyrokkor

It¡s difficult to beleave. Mistake?

Read, please. First page

http://www.cameramanuals.org/konica/konica_auto_s.pdf

What's your experience?

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Certainly no this kind of basic mistake in a factory manual, excellent camera.

sonyrokkor · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject:

The lens was very apreciate by Roger Hicks and his articles in shutterbug.

I Thought that this was a six elements lens, like the newers konicas RF lenses.

But a five elements one. Nice to try.

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

sonyrokkor · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject:

Well Attila, A first "maxima" from the experience said that less elemenst, in the same focal lenght should means that the lens has less IQ at the corners and, perhaps, better contrast.

By the way, the wide aperture of F/1,9 should claim for 6 elements, as almost all F/2 normals lenses have.

From there, my curiosity.

You could not know how much elements have your konica 35 or the tessar lenses, but they have what they have, independently if we know that or no, and produce images by their schame and not by our knowledge.

Both lens =tessar and hexanon you have= have the same design.