> Was the MV1 the same as (or very similar to) the MV? Yes. The MV1 was the same except that you could use a winder. They were both dropped for the MG (one of which I nearly bought when I had an MG car).
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of frank theriault > Sent: 07 December 2007 21:57 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ... > > On Dec 7, 2007 9:30 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the Pentax MV-1 any good? reliable? It looks like an > auto-exposure- > > only version of the MX ... ?? > > > > A guy at the photo store yesterday had one and I thought it looked > > pretty nice. > > > > Was the MV1 the same as (or very similar to) the MV? I briefly had an > MV. Aperture priority only, no indication of shutter speed at all. > If the meter showed green, it was somewhere between 1/30 and 1/500 or > maybe 1/1000. You had to count stops on your aperture up or down from > "red" (on the meter) to figure out the aproximate shutter speed. > > There was not even any optical viewfinder window in which to see the > aperture - you had to look at the ring or count clicks. > > Cheap black plastic housing. > > ~Very~ basic camera. > > I bought it because I bought an MX body-only, and needed a lens. $25 > on eBay, including an M 2.0 50mm (very capable lens!). Bought it for > the lens, and I found that I used the MV more often than I thought I > might. It made a good second k mount body in the absence of anything > else. Lasted 6 months and then crapped out. Became a big rear > lenscap after that... > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
