Konica Auto S3 Archives

8 November, 2021

Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Coinciding with their centenary in the early 70s, Konica fused two of their camera lines together. Since 1968 they had made a compact rangefinder camera called the C35. They had...

25 March, 2021

Fixing Vertical Rangefinder Misalignment in Compact Rangefinder Cameras – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Those who shoot rangefinder cameras on a regular basis are probably aware of (they may even feel plagued by) vertical rangefinder misalignment. A camera rangefinder works by su...

11 June, 2020

Konica Auto S3 – A Tale of Woe and finding My White Whale – – By Hendrik Teron

By Hendrik Theron

Not unlike that all too prolific tale of Captain Ahab chasing down the elusive white-whale, I found myself chasing down the Konica Auto S3, and boy did it end up being an intere...

8 June, 2019

5 frames with a Konica Auto S3 (And a tiny bit of a Tbilisi travelogue) – By Linda Terstad

By Linda Terstad

Oh, the sweet joy and mild anguish of packing cameras for a trip when you used to have GAS and therefore now have something of a collection. I quite enjoy it, but I do spend a s...

23 April, 2019

5 Frames With A Konica Auto S3 – By Marcus Harris

By Marcus Harris

With Brexit heading into overdrive and blessing the news cycle with round-the-clock developments and a couple of nights out in Leeds and Manchester on the cards, myself and thre...

30 August, 2015

Konica Auto S3 review – by Mike Caputo

By Mike Caputo

We all love cameras and film. Most of us spend hours searching for detailed reviews of a prospective camera we might be interested in purchasing, searching for a specific need o...

Charles Young on The Glamorous Side to Motor Racing – A One Shot Story
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Geoff Chaplin on A Haunted House for Halloween!
Love it! Good to hear from you again. It makes me want to re-read all my previous stories. Luckily I…
John Bennett on Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
Happy to do it, Curtis. I recall — perhaps incorrectly — that when I first happened onto their site it…

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