> Really? They had interchagable prisms and screens? pentax had interchangeble finders in their very first asahiflex. so had russian zenit. apparently f100 and f6 don't. so?
> They had shutter preferred auto? does F2 have? mine surely doesn't. > I presume the light meter was visible without looking through the viewfinder > as well? no, but neither is in <name your favorite recent camera> > Would their shutters time to a 10 second exposure? almost, 8sec > How about time exposures? Did they have a T setting for long exposures? yes > And double exposures. Did they have registration for multiple exposures > within a couple of tenths of a millimeter? for double exposures, p27 of the manual for ESII, http://www.pentax-manuals.com/manuals/m42/esii_ps.pdf > Other than aperture preferred auto, what made the ES and ESII so advanced? > > William Robb other than usm and metering, what made F5 so advanced? weird question. best, mishka
