And with the arrival of autofocus for SLRs, the development costs for low sales effectively killed off the majority of this end of the market. That tended to cap sales of the cameras somewhat, it becoming a vicious circle. However, back in the early 80s there were simply too many different lens mounts, and not all 3rd party manufacturers bothered to make lenses for the less popular mounts. The STX-1 was also sold by Porst in Germany, as the CR-1. Although often difficult to find, a decent selection of these lenses are available on online auction sites. The mount is a bayonet type, with a 65° clockwise lock, and a flange focal distance of 43.5 mm. It replaced the M42 screw mount used on their earlier SLRs. The STX-1 has a Fujica X mount, which is compatible with Fujica X lenses. The Fujica X-mount was a lens mount created by Fujifilm in the late 1970s for the new Fujica SLR lineup: AX-1, AX-3, AX-5, STX-1, STX-1N, STX-2. Still, worth giving it a try! Fuji's own lenses were very good. The other change in the STX-1n is a redesigned battery hatch.
The odd lens mount makes finding lenses fairly difficult, and I suspect the superzoom you have will be pretty awful - I've never heard of it, but 20-odd-year-old superzooms from unknown makers are almost without exception pretty awful.
It's frankly a pretty unexciting and generally unloved camera, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be capable of decent pictures. This was the budget version, not dissimilar to the old screwthread ST-605 - the other models were basically all-new.
#Fujica stx 1n manual#
it had aperture priority, shutter priority, program and manual exposure), the AX-3 with aperture priority and manual, the AX-1 with just aperture priority, and the STX-1 with just manual exposure. There were fundamentally 4 cameras in this range (in descending price sequence) - the AX-5, which was a multi-mode SLR (i.e. Their ST range of M42 screw-mount SLRs was generally quite well regarded for a relatively budget range, but eventually (early 80s, I think) they bowed to the inevitable and introduced a bayonet-mount range, the X series.