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Leica screw mount.
No manual exposure, but aperture priority. Only XA(1) is a rangefinder.
Manual shutterspeed change when your seleniummeter is down without modifications to the camera. Try the following. Cock the shutter with aperturering setting on "A". Push the releaseknob down. Because of the automatic aperture is down it will not fire.Then move aperturering to the desired aperture setting. Take your finger of the releaseknob. At that moment you will notice that the releaseknob is halfway down. If so push the releaseknob and take your picture. It will fire the shutter at 1/200. If the aperturering is not turned to "A" again the releaseknob will keep its halfway position. Cock the shutter and choose your manual aperture setting. The shutterspeed will remain 1/200 or so. If you turn the aperturering back to "A" you will hear a click and the releaseknob will return to its upper position. Then at manual aperture setting it will fire at 1/40 again. If you want to change back to 1/200 proceed as previously written.It works on my Trip 35 (with all metal releaseknob) and maybe worth to try.
The article's basic interest is compact 35mm Rangefinders with faster than f/2 lenses--in other words low light candid photography on a budget. The core group meeting this criteria are the Olympus RD, Canon G-III 17, Konica S3, Yashica Electro 35 CC, Minolta 7sII and Yashica 35GX.
http://www.cameraquest.com/com35s.htm
Note that the small rangefinders typically does not have metering in manual mode.