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.
