Before buying them I had a Super A/Super Program and a Z1-P/PZ1-P, and am currently buying an *ist D. I had planned to sell the Z and keep the Super partly because the latter is small and I love it, and partly because I'll get much more for the Z. The Z is however an immensely capable camera, and getting rid of it implies no disrespect.
However, the two newly acquired cameras (both almost unused) have changed my perspective. One is a K1000 (older version), and it takes me back to my first Pentax, the SPII. Very nostalgic.
The other camera is an SFX/SF1, which I never considered buying when it came out. It's very solidly made, simple to use (having few of the Z's amazingly wide range of features) and is growing on me. The auto-focus is much better than I expected, having heard rather dire reports.
I expect to use film very little when I have the D, but although I'm emotionally drawn to keeping either the Super or the K,(or both) it strikes me as a bit perverse to keep an old manual focus camera for largely sentimental reasons when I could equally well use a reasonable auto-focus which will talk to modern flashguns and use AF lenses.
So, I'm sending the K and the Z to Ebay (whist shedding a quiet tear), and the Super to my ex-wife (who loves it too). The SFX will be the film standby, and the D will do all the work. This way makes better use of my AF lenses, but both cameras are quite happy with the cherished M lenses.
I could of course, keep the lot, but it's sad to see a good tool unused, which is the fate that would befall them.
John
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