Konica T2
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Konica T2 |
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The Konica Autoreflex T2 can most easily be recognized over the Konica Autoreflex T by the on/off switch surrounding the shutter release. A red dot indicates it is on while the L indicates it is locked in the off position.
The T2 is similar in size and weight to my T3n. It feels like, and indeed is, a substatial camera. Heavy, by today's standards, and rugged, this camera, first introduced in 1970, is still a workhorse. Like all Konica Autoreflexes, the T2 is a shutter priority system. You select the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture. Shutter speeds are from one to 1/1000 second. Flash syncronization is a speedy, for it's time, 1/125 second. If I didn't have a T3n the T2 would be my number one camera. The only real advantages of the T3n over the T2 is that the T3 has a switch that easily allows multiple exposures and it's built-in hotshoe for flash. Otherwise the T2 works just as well.
Below are a few photographs I've taken with my T2.
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This and all of the outdoor pictures below were taken in sub-freezing weather. Unlike most electronic cameras, the batteries will not fail in cold weather with the T2. Even when the temperature was near zero, like in the picture at left, where I was out all day, the T2 never ceased to function. This picture was taken using a Konica Hexanon 135mm f/3.2 lens. Taking my meter reading from the sky, it gave me a silhouette image of the tree branches against the sky and frozen lake. |
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These two pictures at right were taken earlier the same day as the photo above. They were taken near sunrise from just off the dam at Smithville Lake, a few miles north of Kansas City, Missouri. Both shots were taken using a tripod and Konica 100mm f/2.8 lens, the top picture with a one second exposure and the second at 1/60 second shutter speed. The top picture was taken using Kodak 800 ASA/ISO film before sunrise, while the lower one was taken using Konica 200 ASA/ISO film as the geese took flight after sunrise. If I remember correctly, each was set at an aperture of f/11.
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This is one of the first photographs I took with my T2. It was taken using Kodak 800 ASA film and a 57mm f/1.2 lens at 1/125 second. I have no idea what the aperture was, but was probably near wideopen. The picture is of the Flamingo Casino on the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri. |
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The photographs above are examples of close-up photography done with my T2. These are pictures of an eight inch piece of driftwood I picked up in South Carolina and coated with Minwax. In the picture at left about five inches of it are showing. It was taken with my T2 mounted on a tripod, with a Konica Hexanon 57mm f/1.4 lens and a number two close-up lens attachment. The picture at right was taken using a Vivitar 100mm f/2.8 lens with a number four close-up lens attachment. Both were taken with only house lamp light - no flash - and Konica 200 ASA print film.
