Ah, I remember lusting after that camera in about 1970. One of my earlier concerns with the Spotmatic I was using was that shutter speeds were in 1-f-stop detentes, and I was using Kodachrome (with not much latitude). The mere idea of a stepless shutter that could give you 1/243 of a second seemed so precise to me back then.
I even recall the 1970 hype on it. The ES was for electronic shutter, but one author said that it should stand for "exposure simplicity". Jeffery On Jan 23, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Jens wrote: > A friend of mine wanted my Minolta Autocord. > I won't be using it much, since I recently got my Pentax 67. > So he made me an offer - his Asahi Pentax ES w. 1.4 50mm Takumar. > It uses almost the same kind of batteries like the P67 - and my Minolta flash > meter. Quite convenient. I guess Silver or Lithium is not a big deal. > > What a nice camera. Actually very similar to the K2 (Shuatter Automatics), > except for the screw mount lenses and no mirror lock up. The secreen is very > bright and easy to fucus with. > > Now I willt look in my Spotmatic bag to see if I have other lenses I may use > with the ES. > > When I started shooting with an SLR - the ES was the hottest camera in the > store. > At that time I couldn't afford it. > -- > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
