Fantastic!!! Joe
Thanks for the information!!!
Can you still get batteries for the SPs?

Cheers
Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Wilensky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question on Spotmatics

Hi, Andy,

I had an ESII for a while, and really liked it -- very heavy and 
substantial, but with an overall feel of the very expensive camera it 
was at the time (more than $600 in 1973, I think, with lens). It 
works wonderfully with SMC Takumar lenses (open aperture metering) 
and is only somewhat limited with Super-Takumar lenses in that you 
must stop the lens down to shooting aperture before exposure.

The light meter, even though it's uses CdS cells like the Spotmatic, 
seems more responsive. It has Pentax's first Super-Multi-Coated 
viewfinder eyepiece and has the built-in viewfinder blinds for 
exposures on a tripod where light entering the viewfinder could throw 
off the automatic exposure.

No memory lock, but it has exposure compensation. Manual shutter 
speeds are only available at 1/60 (flash synch), 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 
and 1/1000, albeit without the light meter available.

Joe


>Anybody has the Pentax Eletro Spotmatic ESII? How is it like? Very
>curious
>
>Andy







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