The ME Super has a very well damped mirror. There actually is a real
shock absorber (like in a car) which is placed beneath the mirror box. I
have a brochure on the ME Super where this is shown and explained. And
it is true: The ME Super really is much more quiet than the Super A or
any other Pentax SLR from that era.
Arnold
John Forbes schrieb:
I also disagree about it shaking like a wet dog. Mine was certainly
no worse than my PZ-1p, which is better than my SFXs and K1000 and
Spottie. Can't remember if the ME Super shook, doggilly or
otherwise, but it's a long time ago. I did buy the Super A straight
after the theft of the MES, and it just seemed like a similar camera
with better features. Probably Bill Robb's got more use than mind
did, and started to rattle a bit.
John
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:14:57 CDT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John said, regarding the Super A and the ME Super:
They are sufficiently similar that they both take the ME Winder II. If
they are different, there's barely a millimetre in it. They DO have
different shutters, so they don't sound the same.
I must admit, I made the comment assuming that the Super A and the
SuperProgram
are the same bodies, differing only in colour. I have owned both the
ME Super
and the SuperProgram, with a brief overlap, but only handled the
Super A in the
absence of both the others.
According to the published specs, the dimensions of the two bodies
(ME Super
and SuperProgram) are as follows:
SuperProgram -- 131mm W x 86.5mm H x 47.5mm D
ME Super -- 131.5mm W x 83mm H x 49.5mm D
they're pretty close but not quite the same shape, which could
account for the
earlier comment that the ME Super felt -- what was it, "sleeker"?
Certainly it
explains them feeling different in the hands, especially with a weight
difference as well. Also it's apparent from the figures that they
aren't the
same body.
The SuperProgram and the Program Plus, however (I think the
outside-US names
would be SuperA and ProgramA) have exactly the same published
dimensions. Those
could well be the same body with different features; perhaps they're
the ones
you were thinking about?
ERN
