Similar technology was used in the Minolta X-700 and some Nikons. There was talk at the time that the technology may have been developed by Cosina. You also have auto-exposure with any manual or preset lens and virtually anything you can attach to the camera. You can press it slowly to check that speed in marginal lighting, or you can just push it down hard and take your picture with what appears to be open-aperture metering. As you press it down the lens stops down, the meter turns on, and a needle shows the automatically-set shutter speed. The shutter release is stiff with a long but smooth travel. With all, you focus and compose wide open. The Chinon CE-3 was a later, smaller version. I think Sears Roebuck sold this under another name as well, and that there was an Argus version (CR-3E?). I am no expert but I own three of these Chinon-made SLRs and am old enough to have been around when they came out and read the reviews -) The Chinon Memotron CE II, the Alpa Si200, and the GAF LE-S/2 are what I have.
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