![]() That feature allegedly reduces camera shake on longer exposures, and allows mounting of ultra-wide-angle lenses, which often have deeply protruding rear elements that the mirror would block. ![]() This is almost everything you’d expect of a camera in this class - curiously, mirror lock up is missing. The 202 also features a hot shoe and a focusing screen with a split-image spot surrounded by a microprism ring. It uses two metering cells to assess contrast, making sure bright areas don’t turn out too bright and dark areas don’t turn out too dark. That meter, Minolta’s “Contrast Light Compensator” (that’s what the CLC on the camera’s face means), is the world’s first matrix metering system. It also features classic match-needle metering, but no autoexposure modes. The 202 features a cloth shutter that operates from 1 to 1/1000 sec. The photographers who shot them didn’t care - they wanted a precise, versatile, and durable machine, and they got it. ![]() This heavy brick won’t win any beauty contests. Those were just the model numbers given this camera elsewhere in the world. If you have any SR-T with a higher model number - say, 303b, 505, or 505s - you actually have a 202. It might be hard to tell, because Minolta offered a dizzying array of SR-T cameras worldwide, some with model numbers higher than this. That’s where Minolta’s SR-T 202 sat upon its 1975 debut: atop Minolta’s hierarchy of SR-T 35mm SLRs.
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