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   From: mort@cloud9.net   
      
   Louis Boyd wrote:   
   > I don't know who made the first SLRs.    Kodak and Nikon were popular   
   > the early 1960's when I got interested in photography.   
      
   Kine Exacta, Germany, 1936.   
   After each shot, the mirror had to be lowered and the diaphragm stopped   
   down manually. The automatic mirror and diaphragm came in the   
   post-W.W.II years. The Nikon F and Canon slr's came out in 1959.   
      
   Morton Linder   
      
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