About two years ago I got a brand new P30T from a dealer in LA. He had put one on eBay and I emailed asking if he had any more. He had and I paid about $120 I think. Its a fine camera and with a good lens I cannot see how other cameras can 'run rings' around it? Perhaps you'd be able to find a new one as well? I like mine and have a slightly older one, a P30, as well. They are more automatic than any other cameras I've used over the last 50 years or so and if I had to buy something else it would be an MZ-S. The P30T as you know is mostly plastic, but I don't find this a problem. I've never broken a camera and don't intend to start. I did lose one in the sea, but that's another story.
Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 3:09 AM Subject: Re: P30 in 2003? > The only 'current' camera made by Pentax that is manual is the ZX-M (US > designation) > or MZ-M as it's known in the rest of the world. It's inexpensive and > reliable but > probably doesn't have as nice a view finder as the P30, it's been a long > time since > I've handled a P30 so I can't be entirely sure of that. In all other > respects the > ZX/MZ-M runs rings around the P30 as a picture taker. > > At 01:58 AM 6/8/03 +0200, you wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I own an old P30t as my main slr camera. I like manual photography; can > >anybody tell me if thereīs another camera now in the market to buy similar > >to the P30? Pentax, if itīs possible. I would like to buy a new one, but > >manual (I hate AF...). Give me your opinion. Is the P30t "too much old > >fashioned"? Whatīs the "actual" P30? > > > >Thanks! > > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. > Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx >
