On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/31/09, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A good idea, but the bodies cost roughly the same as an M3 or M4-2 in >> user condition. Of course they do include such niceties as a sane film >> loading design. The lenses are more interesting. However I'm only >> considering bodies I already own. > > M4 and onwards employ the same film loading mechanism which once > mastered is fast to load and very reliable, more so than any Pentax > SLR I've used. Also speaking from a little experience, I've bought, > used and sold 5 Leica M bodies and each have returned more money than > I paid initially including all ancillary costs. I still have an M4 > body which I won't make money on as I had it restored by the factory > (plus I'll never sell it). > > -- > Rob Studdert
I'm not much of a fan of the Magic Needle system on the Pentax K mount bodies. Best film loading I've seen in a manual-advance SLR is the Canon QL system, after that I prefer the traditional system used by most other setups (including the Bessa Rangefinders). The system used by the M4 and later is adequate but inferior to the basic advance system used by most SLRs. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
