What is the cheapest used Minolta Autocord in the UK?

The cheapest used Minolta Autocord currently listed is £279.95 at eBay, based on 8 listings compared across 1 UK retailers.

How many used Minolta Autocord are for sale in the UK?

There are currently 8 used Minolta Autocord listings available across 1 UK retailers on UsedLens, updated daily.

Is the used Minolta Autocord going up or down in price?

Over the past two weeks the average used price has fallen 9.5%, from £407 to around £368, based on UsedLens daily price tracking across UK retailers.

Used Minolta Autocord for Sale — From £280

£279.95 Low price

£776.17 High price

8 Listings

1 Retailers

2 Reduced

Great for: medium format film photography portraits square-format fine art collecting Rolleiflex alternative

Minolta's celebrated 1955 twin-lens reflex — a fine 6x6 TLR, built in several variants.

The Minolta Autocord is Minolta's celebrated twin-lens reflex, introduced in 1955 and produced in numerous variants (plain, light-meter and CdS models) into the mid-1960s — Japan's most serious answer to the Rolleiflex, shooting twelve 6×6cm frames on 120 film.

Every Autocord carries a four-element 75mm f/3.5 Rokkor taking lens of Tessar type, widely judged among the sharpest lenses ever fitted to a TLR, mated to a Seikosha or Citizen leaf shutter (typically 1s-1/500 with flash sync at all speeds). Its signature ergonomic quirk is the seesaw focusing lever that sweeps beneath the lens board instead of a side knob, plus a crank film advance with automatic frame spacing.

Its significance is as the connoisseur's budget Rolleiflex: optically it concedes little to far costlier German TLRs, and the medium format film revival has repriced it accordingly — UK listing evidence averaging around £613 reflects genuine demand for clean, serviced examples.

UK used-buying checks: the Autocord's one infamous weakness is that pot-metal focusing lever — hardened grease makes owners force it until it snaps, and a broken lever is a specialist repair — so sweep focus gently through its whole arc and reject anything stiff or with a repaired lever; run all shutter speeds, expecting sticky slow speeds on unserviced examples; shine a torch through the taking lens for haze and fungus (the Rokkor's coatings mark easily when cleaned carelessly); check the film advance crank spaces frames properly with a test roll if possible; and on metered variants assume the selenium/CdS meter is dead and price it as unmetered. A documented CLA from a TLR specialist is worth a substantial premium here.

Avg £368, down 9.5% over 2 weeks

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Minolta Autocord TLR Camera Rokkor 75mm F3.5 LIGHT SEALS REPLACED GOOD CONDITION eBay

£279.95

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Vintage 1963 Minolta Autocord TLR camera - with case, box, manual and guarantee eBay

£339.26

eBay

Vintage 1963 Minolta Autocord TLR camera - with case, box, manual and receipt eBay

£339.26

eBay

Minolta Autocord TLR in Mint condition CLA'd / serviced recently - PERFECT! eBay

£368.18

eBay

MINOLTA AUTOCORD RA TLR CAMERA, Serial no. 270595,Minolta Rokkor 75mm f/3.5 lens eBay

£364.20

eBay

AVRO VULCAN OBSERVATION Minolta Autocord Citizen Mvl with Rokkor F 3.5-75mm Lens eBay

£449.77 £452.28

eBay

MINOLTA AUTOCORD RA TLR CAMERA, Serial no. 360448,Minolta Rokkor 75mm f/3.5 lens eBay

£489.20

eBay

AVRO VULCAN OBSERVATION Minolta Autocord Citizen Mvl with Rokkor F 3.5-75mm Lens eBay

£776.17 £778.68

eBay

Used Minolta Autocord price history

Tracking the used Minolta Autocord price? Over the past two weeks, the average has fallen 9.5%, from £407 to around £368. Depending on shutter count and condition, expect to pay between £352 and £469 for a used body.

Average market price (line) and typical price range (shaded). Source: UsedLens daily price index, 6 Jul – 4 Aug 2026.