Those were the some of the "lowest" SLR models pentax ever made for people who wanted an SLR but knew nothing about them essentially. They always had higher models at the time those were made that did offer the features more experienced users wanted/needed so no harm done.. I would want the AE with a lock and exp compensation is already a given isnt it?
I remember one camera they did that had a "backlight" button as AE compensation that added 1.5 stops. that was it. the model was the A3000 which was like a motordriven MV. No manual speeds! JCO -----Original Message----- From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 10:01 PM To: J. C. O'Connell Subject: Re: M42 lenses on *ist bodies, or, I'm an idiot > I don't think pentax ever made a SLR that had K/M aperture priority AE > without some sort of AE lock or at least AE compensation to go along > with it... I agree that it's pretty rare (and that it's pretty limiting, too), but I do think that the MG, the MV, and the MV1 all had AE with no lock and no compensation (although users could "fake" compensation with the ASA dial). Fred
