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From: "Pål Jensen"
Subject: Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...
William wrote:
It is immaterial whether they could, or couldn't, or anything else.
In the mid 1960s. they made world class cameras, as good as just about
anything else out there.
By the early 1970s, they had been left in the dust by their competition.
Really? The ES and ESII was at time the most advanced cameras on the
planet. It was the first with aperture priority auto years before Nikon.
Really? They had interchagable prisms and screens? They had shutter
preferred auto? They would take a 5 fps drive? They had a bayonet mount?
I presume the light meter was visible without looking through the viewfinder
as well?
Would their shutters time to a 10 second exposure?
How about time exposures? Did they have a T setting for long exposures?
And double exposures. Did they have registration for multiple exposures
within a couple of tenths of a millimeter?
Was both shutter speed and aperture displayed in the finder?
The F2 had all of that in 1971, excepting for shutter preferred auto, which
didn't become available until the release of the DP-2 finder in 1973.
Other than aperture preferred auto, what made the ES and ESII so advanced?
William Robb
