SudaMafud wrote:
> ... I'm now thinking the "F", no matter how good, should *not* be
> my first screw-mount body, what with all its little peccadilloes.
I wouldn't necessarily agree w/ that, myself. The F has a
"worthiness", ala the LX, which makes a "tune-up service" be
sort of considered into the cost. I got one about 4yrs ago from
a store that had it on consignment and a $139 CLA invested in it.
I got it for $179 - good as new.
And the F also has a bridge in the metering circuit that deals
w/ the 1.35v Hg battery to 1.5v replacement alkalines. I have
one Hg cell still in reserve, so I haven't used them yet.
All the K-mounts followed the F using open-aperture metering,
so in a sense, it functions much more like our current ones than
a jump back to stopdown metering - even with the auto-stopdown
which all the Soptmatics and pre-spots had. I suspect many of us
are "accustomed" to open-aperture metering as a given.
Bill
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