On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:27 -0500, "Adam Maas" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > wrote:
> The MX lacked the great weakness of the K line, the very unrefined > build & feel. While I'm not a big MX fan (I found it smallish, > unreliable and the viewfinder is a triumph of specifications over > utility) I'd be hard pressed to take any of the K line over a MX > without the on/off problems. I've shot with the KX and K1000 and owned > a K2. They're competent cameras but after working extensively with the > Nikon FM2n and FE2 (which are essentially the FM and FE with better > shutters, the basic design is concurrent with the K series) it's hard > to call the K series anything other than competent but unimpressive > cameras. > > Of course the only Pentax 35mm bodies I've truly liked are the LX and > PZ-1p, particularly the LX. > Well, I've never used the Nikons so I have no basis for comparison, and my relatively recently aquired LX remains unused (something I will definitely redress in the new year). Having held the KX, MX and LX, though, I still like the 'feel' of the KX over the others. Maybe I'm just odd.... I'm not sure what you mean by the "on/off problems". Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > > The K1000 may have been a Spotmatic F with a bayonet mount but I always > > felt that the others in the K series were maligned unfairly. My > > favourite of the K and M series has always been the KX - it's > > match-needle metering system was very intuitive - much more so than that > > of the later MX. The MX is wonderful but I find it just too small. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- 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.
