Konica FS1

Konica FS1 was the first SLR camera with built-in motorized winder. No one thought this was possible at the time but Konica placed the AA batteries inside its hand grip, and became a pioneer in such body grip as well. If you look carefully, you'll find electronics contacts coming out of the pentaprism housing. I modified this camera to interface it to a computer during my undergrad studies. I was studying computer science and hardware design, and I realized all the release sequence in these cameras could be computer controlled. This was an era of microcomputers, and cameras became electronically sequenced rather than mechanically controlled.