BTW, I think there may be several Chinese K1000 clones out there. IIRC, Pentax sourced out the K1000 to several Far East factories to keep costs down. Once the K1000 was discontinued, some of those factories kept making the K1000 with their own badges on them.
One such company is the Ming Camera Company, manufacturers of the Mingca, a K1000 clone. There may be others.
FWIW...
cheers, frank
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> I think (other than MF, as you mention) that Leica is the > exception that proves the rule...
The Leica came quickly to mind, probably because I'm a Leica shooter, but there's also the various Voightlander models, the Mamiya 7 rangefinder, the Bronica rangefinder, Rollei's rebadged Voightlander, several Chinese 35mm SLR models, and, I'm sure, more. And isn't the K1000 still being manufactured somewhere under one or another different names?
Tyrone
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