> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Cotty > Sent: 07 December 2007 08:53 > To: pentax list > Subject: Re: Mouldering film camera survey > > On 06/12/07, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Nope. That's my "cold dead hands" film camera. It was my > first K-mount > >body (thirty years ago - how time flies ...), and I was > lucky enough to > >pick up a "New In Box" motor drive about ten years ago. > >My second MX was bought purely as a spare in case the first one dies. > > Same here. I bought my MX (black) in 1979 from Techno in the > Euston Road > (London) for either 106 or 104 GBP, body only. Also a 28mm 2.8 on the > same day, although I can't remember the price of the lens. Drives, > winders, more bodies have come and gone since then, but the camera and > lens (and a winder) sit retired on a shelf with a couple of > other cameras. > > I'll be buried with the MX ;-) >
you got a bargain. I bought mine in 1979 for £125- from a shop in Leeds. I gave up smoking for a year to get the money together. It's now in my safe with my Contaxes. I've also had several other MXs over the years, but have always hung on to the original, and suspect I always will. I bought it because I was planning to hitchhike around Europe with a girlfriend for a few months, and I wanted something better than my first SLR, a Zenith. Here's a picture taken with the MX of the aforementiond gf, running along a beach somewhere in the S of France (Gruissan or Cap d'Agde, I think): http://www.web-options.com/aotb.jpg I must have had a cheap tele zoom lens. The slide obviously needs cleaning. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
