| Produced by |
Model |
Year |
Innovative characteristic |
Picture |
| Wirgin |
Edixa Electronica TL |
1971 |
1° with electronic self-timer with blinking light |
 |
| Olympus |
Olympus OM-1 |
1972 |
1° with full-featured SLR body in a compact size |
 |
| Asahi Pentax |
Pentax Electro Spotmatic |
1972 |
1° with built-in aperture preferred automatic exposure control |
 |
| Chinon |
Chinon M1 |
1972 |
1° with a control for making double exposure |
 |
| Nippon Kogaku |
Nikkormat-EL |
1972 |
1° with automatic exposure hold |
 |
| K.M.Z. |
ZENIT-16 |
1972 |
1° SLR with hard plastic body |
 |
| Fujica |
Fujica ST-801 |
1973 |
1° to use light-emitting diodes in the finder for match-LED exposure control |
 |
| Fujica |
Fujica ST-901 |
1974 |
1° with digital read-out of shutter speeds in the finder |
 |
| Olympus |
Olympus OM-2 |
1975 |
1° with meter cell reading the light on the film plane, with low shutter speed of 60 sec |
 |
| Kyocera |
Contax RTS |
1975 |
1° with electro-magnetic release button |
 |
| Canon |
Canon AE-1 |
1976 |
1° with a micro-chip inside |
 |
| Minolta |
Minolta XD-7 (XD 11) |
1978 |
1° multimode automatic exposure controls |
 |
| Kyocera |
Contax 139Q |
1978 |
1° with a quartz crystal oscillator to control shutter speeds |
 |
| Konishiroku |
Konica FS-1 |
1979 |
1° with built-in winder without advancement lever |
 |