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In 1955, the Japanese company Chiyoda Kogaku Seiko launched the "Minolta A" as the first of a new series of KB cameras with fixed lenses and an integrated (coupled) distance meter. In 1957 this series was supplemented with an "A2" and a "Super A". The Minolta 'A' is a very distinctively designed and stylishly built camera that shows beautiful details (including the film rewind button and fast transport handle). The most striking thing about the "Minolta A" is the unique black rotating dial on the top of the camera for adjusting the shutter speeds. This intelligent approach to shutter speed adjustment - instead of a shutter speed adjustment ring around the lens - would later be applied not only to other Minolta models - albeit with a different construction - but was also adopted by many other camera manufacturers. The fixed lens is a Chiyoko Rokkor f: 3.5 / 45 mm (a coated four-element lens of the Tessar type) in an Optiper MX shutter with flash synchronization and times from 1 to 1/300 sec. and B. Like many 1950s cameras, the Minolta 'A' has no carrying eyes for a camera strap and must therefore always be carried in the ever-ready bag for safety. That is certainly advisable because the Minolta 'A' is not so easy to grasp - due to its thick and rounded shape - and because of its smooth cover, it slips easily out of hand.
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