Ricoh Singles TLS Beginner Guide Video Manual and Review

The Ricoh Singlex TLS was a spectacular M42-mount camera with some great capabilities, especially for the time. The camera camera with stunning Ricoh lenses and featured a 1/125th flash sync speed, very fast compared to other, similar cameras. This video series is a beginner guide and tutorial walkthrough video manual designed to provide a complete review of all the features and functions as well as an understanding of how to do everything this camera can do.
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Video Index:
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Tutorial Walkthrough Video Manual
4:52 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features -- Top
6:44 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features - Front
8:00 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features - Sides and back
8:45 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features -- Back
8:49 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features -- Bottom
9:00 - Ricoh Singlex TLS Features -- Inside
10:30 - Tips for using the Ricoh Singlex TLS
12:06 - Things NOT to do with your Ricoh Singlex TLS
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[@SchwarzPoet]

Next week I will receive the second camera of this design with a fixed Hotschoe. There are 26 models of this design from various manufacturers such as Ricoh, Cosina and Chinon, as well as from photo retailers such as Foto Quelle, Photo Porst, Sears etc., which have sold the export models of the three manufacturers mentioned under other names, which I was able to find after lengthy research.
Of these 26 models, only two had a hotshoe, namely the Sigma Mark 1 and the Universa Interflex TL.
The Sigma Mark 1 is essentially the first camera model that Sigma ever brought onto the market and was created based on the original blueprints of the Ricoh Singlex TLS, which Sigma bought directly from Ricoh. The Sigma Mark 1 came onto the market in 1976, nine years after the Ricoh Singlex TLS.
The Universa Interflex TL is the modified export version of the Cosina Hi-Lite and came onto the market in 1970. In addition to the added hotshoe, modifications included a newly designed cocking and transport lever, as well as a redesigned release button, in which the screw thread was separated from the release button for the cable release and attached behind it.
Here is the complete list based on my research:
Ricoh Singlex TLS
Sears T-L-S
Sigma Mark 1
Cavalier Five Thousand RTL
Cosina SLR
Revueflex T
Cosina Hi - Lite
Proloisirs Hi - Lite
Reporter Hi-Lite
universa Interflex TL
Carena 1000
Porst uniflex TTL
Porst reflex TTL
Revueflex 1000s TTL
Revue Superflex TTL
Ifbaflex TTL
Ifbaflex T 1000
Chinonflex TTL
Chinon Prinzflex TTL
Prinzflex Super TTL
Chinon Riaflex TTL
Kingflex TTL
Focal 1000 TLX
Argus STL 1000
Phokina Interflex TLS
Evil tongues would claim that these 26 models are roughly based on the Konica Auto-Reflex or Konica Autorex as it is called in Japan, which came onto the market in 1965, but that would be going too far.
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[@DavidHancock]

Thank you! That's great research.

[@SchwarzPoet]

@@DavidHancock
You are very welcome. You can search for the Universa Interflex TL on RUclips. There's a very ingenious video where the top half of the front of the camera takes up almost the entire thumbnail. It should also be displayed right at the top when you enter the camera name.

[@Huginn87OG]

Nice. I have the rebadged version of it from Sears (yes THAT sears 😂) named Sears TLS

[@DavidHancock]

Nice! The Sears cameras back in the day were fantastic.

[@BriansPhotoShow]

Do you know whether Ricoh made their own lenses or simply re-branded third party lenses?

[@DavidHancock]

My understanding is that they made their own.