Konica III Hexanon 48mm F:2 MXL Rangefinder 1957 Camera Boxed condition 9+++++

Description

Konica III
Konica III.
Advertisement in National Geographic, May 1957
The Konica III (from 1956) is a considerable advance from the Konica II: the shutter is cocked by the film advance.
The Konica III (as well as the IIIA and IIIM, discussed below) is immediately distinguishable from the Konica II (and all its variations) thanks to the film wind lever, which is not on the top but instead on the front of the camera and invites the use of the forefinger (or thumb) of the photographer's left hand (similar to that on the Adox 300 and Zeiss Tenax). This lever needs two strokes and cocks the shutter at the same time as it winds the film. The curvaceous metal plate between leather and lens on the II is reduced and made more rectangular. The self-timer control (where present) becomes a lever and the film rewind knob also has a fold-out crank, both of the kind then becoming conventional. The top cover is engraved Konica, below this (and much taller) III, and below this (and much smaller) NO.and the serial number. Each model has a 48mm Hexanon lens (six elements in five groups).
The dimensions are 132×80×64 mm and weight is 760g.
Sales of the Konica III and its variants (including the IIIA and IIIM) totaled over 170,000.
The original Konica III (or Konica IIIMFX, September 1956) has an f/2 lens (six elements in five groups) with Konirapid MFX shutter (B, 1–500). It cost ¥34,500, including case] or 9.75. It weighs 750g.
This is a boxed Mint condition and case, Konica lll MXL 1957 ISSUE. Its never been used. You get the camera, jcc tag, inst book, the silica gel, lens cap metal, chrome konifilter uv and the case. Needless to say the camera is as near to perfect as I have ever seen. I have had the camera in my collection since 1990.