On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Not the MV. It was black plastic. I don't think there was even a Chrome > version produced. I'd check Boz's page but I'm feeling too lazy.
I had one for a while. I think you're right. Only available in black, and a very plasticky plastic it was, too. Obviously a budget camera. Aperture priority only with no shutter speed indication in the viewfinder or anywhere else. IIRC an LED in the viewfinder turned red under 1/60th or 1/30th and above 1/1000th (or something like that). So if you really wanted to know the shutter speed you had to click the aperture to where the LED turned red then back-click, counting stops to figure the shutter speed. Not as big a PIA as you might think, but then I rarely cared ~that much~ what the shutter speed was, and if I did, I'd not bring that camera. I got it on eBay for around $15, but considered it little more than a rear lens cap for the M 2.0 50mm lens on it - not because I had any illusions that was a good lens (capable to be sure, but not great) but because I'd recently bought an MX from Wheatfield and didn't have a k-mount lens to use (having only Spotmatics up to that point). I was happy enough for the $15 lens, but surprisingly I used the body more than I thought I would, as a back-up for the MX and for situations where I didn't want to do harm to the MX. It was great for throwing in the glove compartment or trunk and not worrying about. 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.
