Hi Guys,
Ours does 400..800..1600. Ser # 1079xxx. Does it look like
later models had 1000?
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Super Program Exposure Dial: Two Kinds
> Hi Paul,
>
> Mine does the 400...1000...1600. It is a #151xxxx.
>
> I don't know any of the answers to your questions, but
> I will speculate on one. About the time that the
> Super Program was in production, Kodak came out with
> their VR1000 high speed color print film. I don't
> believe that there were any 800 speed films being
> produced at that time, and Kodak was pushing the low
> light capability of the 1000 speed film pretty hard (I
> think this may have been the first T-grain emulision,
> first in color anyway). Perhaps Pentax thought that it
> would be less confusing for the general consumer to
> have a mark at 1000 for a film that existed vs 800
> that only someone who might be pushing film speed etc.
> (in other words, knew what they were doing) would be
> using. Just a guess.
>
> Regards,
>
> William in Utah.
>
> Paul wrote;
>
>
> Does anyone know when the change was introduced? Which
> came first? Why the
> change was made? What other changes occurred during
> the Super Program /
> Super A's manufacturing cycle?
>
>
>
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