ST601

Focus

Manual

Mount

M42

Format

35mm

Battery

2 x 1.35V mercury (Varta 400PX)

Metering

TTL centre-weighted averaging, 2 x silicon cell with FET; stop-down

Weight

610g

Spec Notes

Shutter range B, 1/2-1/700. Hot shoe. Mercury cells, no drop-in modern equivalent. Short-lived: camera-wiki says it stayed on the market only briefly before the ST605 replaced it in 1976.

Shutter Type

focal-plane

Exposure Modes

Manual

Viewfinder Type

pentaprism, 0.96x, 92% coverage; microprism, split-image and ground glass

Introduced

1975

Flash Sync Speed

1/60

Max Shutter Speed

1/700