My first SLR was a Ricoh KR-5 Super given to me as a gift for my birthday in 1983. It was a real dog but served its purpose for several years. Later I traded it for a "better" Ricoh but this one had an annoying habit of having the mirror stick in the up position and requried a hard slap or two after every shot to get the mirror to drop. In the years I owned those cameras i acquired a good amount of k-mount lenses so when I decided to buy a new SLR I had very little choice but to buy a Pentax if I didn't want to try to replace all my lenses.
So which Pentax to buy? Well, I'd lusted after N**** F3HP's for a long time and I knew that there was a Pentax with very similar features called the LX so I did some investigation and bought one early last year. ;-) I didn't realize I had entered into a cult on my own accord until after joining the PDML... I had no idea Pentax was renowned for the optical quality of it's lenses. I didn't know that screw mount Takumars could be used on modern AF k-mount bodies. I had no idea that the medium format crowd were such zealots. I didn't know about enablement or LX obsession. Well, I have been enabled (MX, various accessories) and being happy with manual focus 35mm cameras I will continue to stay with Pentax because I have come to realize how timeless their cameras are. Christian - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
