Samsung Kenox mount
Samsung Kenox mount is a lens mount designed by Samsung in 1997 for 35mm film cameras. For a lens mount designed in the late 1990s, this mount is an oddity – it supports all the automatic features, except autofocus – a very significant feature in the 1990s. Lens mount is a bayonet mount with three tabs, a focal flange distance of 44.5mm, and a throat diameter of 44.7mm. It has five electronic contacts.
Lens mount was discontinued due to poor sales, in 2002. There was only one body ever produced – Samsung Kenox GX-1, or Samsung SR4000, for the North American market.
Some sources say this lens mount is a slightly modified Minolta A-mount, with slightly different lens tabs – lenses mount, lock, focus to infinity on A-mount to Sony E-mount adapters, even the aperture ring found on the adapter work as expected. Hence info about focal flange distance and throat diameter.
Lenses
- Samsung 28–70mm F3.5–4.5
- Samsung 28–105mm F3.5–4.5 (unconfirmed if it ever existed in the real world)
- Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 50mm F1.4
- Samsung 70–210mm F4–5.6
Resources
- http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Samsung_SR4000
- https://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/camera-9570-Samsung_Kenox%20GX-1.html
- https://tokinon5014.blogspot.com/2020/12/schneider-kreuznach-xenon-50mm1141649.html
- https://www.mikeeckman.com/2021/04/samsung-sr4000-1997/
Last update: 15/06/2021.