Mark's Konica FC-1 Page
1980.Metering: 2 x gallium-arsenide-phosphorus compound photo-cells.
Shutter: Digitally controlled, vertical travel, electronic, metal focal plane shutter. Requires batteries to work.
Focus: Manual.
Viewfinder: Displays selected aperture, under-exposure, low battery, and manual exposure mode.
Exposure modes: Shutter priority auto exposure, manual and bulb.
Flash: Hot shoe. Sync speed 1/100th, LED at f/5.6 or f/11 will blink indicating X-24 electronic flash ready.
Film transport: Manual load, wind and rewind, or takes Konica winder F.
Batteries: 4 x LR44 or SR44 silver.
Lenses: Konica AR-mount.
Accessories: Konica Winder F. Interval timer or a radio remote control. Takes a
Limitations: No DOF button, exposure lock or exposure compensation.
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4-22-24: Arrived intact, but had leaky mercury batteries in the fragile plastic holder. Cleaned it up, installed some LR44's, and it worked fine. These pics are AFTER cleaning it up a little. There's a chip out of the viewfinder housing, and it needs light seals. I'm removing the battery holder and bagging it up with the camera. Don't want to open it's thin plastic hinge strip repeatedly. The LED meter works fine, the mirror / shutter sound good. The wind lever feels great.
4-27-24: First roll of Kentmere 100 ASA, developed with Caffenol-C (coffee). All the outdoor shots were taken with the ASA set to 50. Think the Caffenol-C is over-developing by 1 stop. Lenses used were the Konica 40mm, Sigma 75-210mm (came with this camera), and a Vivitar 28mm. The Konica X-24 flash wouldn't fire from the hot shoe, so I used a Sunpak Auto 321s which has a PC cable.
