Sounds like a good buy, especially on the lense, i've been after one of
these for a while.
Where are you in Aus? i'm in Melbourne.
Cya
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: Bought it! Was: buying a Pentax ME super, opinions?
> Ok, so here's how it goes;
> I anxiously wait through a 2 hour lecture before speeding back off to the
> store, taking with me a flash, a lens and a known meter. Camera checks
out
> ok, only fault appears to be that the self timer doesn't work. With this
I
> beat the price down a touch to AUD$60. So that's great, I've got the
> body...but no lens. Begrudgingly I drive to Crime Convertors (big pawn
> chain that sells things for 2x value usually, after giving crook, I mean
> seller 1/4 price for it.) to peruse their selection....looking looking...
> 50/2.0's abound at $75 each, I'm not paying that.... keep looking, 28/2.8,
a
> few sigmas, rikenons, af lenses, consumer zooms, about to give up, but
> what's this? A 55/1.8 SMC, with no price tag, but a tag that reads 50mm
> pentax $25 underneath it. A bit of fast talking and it's mine, with both
> original caps and a pentax body cap.
>
> So, total outlay AUD$85, pictures below.
>
> Interestingly, the MEsuper at CC's that I looked at before getting the
lens
> (priced at $175 hehe) also had a non-functioning self timer...maybe I'm
> doing something wrong. Time to download a manual.
>
> http://student.uq.edu.au/~s369258/1.jpg
> http://student.uq.edu.au/~s369258/2.jpg
> http://student.uq.edu.au/~s369258/3.jpg
>
> Thanks for the help, without it this body may have floundered in the
cabinet
> for months.
>
> Andrew Blake.
>
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