>> The camera looks clean and nice (apart from some specks in the >> viewfinder).
And, of course, those specks only show to the photographer's eye, and wouldn't show up on film. >> It's probably 25 years old. > More like 22 years old. Well, it could also be as old as 26 years - it was first released in late 1976, I believe. >>but are old ME's prone to the same kind of problems like old LX's? >>What's your general opinion about the ME? > Should not be. ME is much like ME Super which is one of the most > reliable Pentax K mount body. The ME and the ME Super are not as mechanically rugged as the LX, but they don't seem to develop "sticky mirror syndrome", either. This is not to say that their foam parts don't develop "sticky" and "gooey" characteristics, because they usually eventually do (and should be replaced if this has happened). (And, this is not to say that some of their mechanical parts, such as in the winder mechanism, don't eventually wear out.) However, many ME's, ME Supers, and ME F's just simply go on and on and on and on... If you like to shoot aperture priority autoexposures, you'll like the ME - it does a good job with that. (I personally much prefer the ME Super or the ME F, since I also like to shoot manually sometimes, and I'm one of the guys that like those little Up and Down shutter speed buttons - <g>.) Fred
