On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:50 -0500, "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]> wrote: > ES stood for electrospotmatic >
Yeah, JC's right. They actually made a version that was labelled "Electro Spotmatic" rather than ES. I think it sold mainly in Japan. I have one (jammed, sadly). My working ES has been sitting on a shelf with a half exposed film for over a year. Just can't seem to get the opportunity to finish off the roll - or, (more likely) I'm just too lazy. I last took in out when Dave Mann was in Sydney in December but I only shot off a couple of frames at the time. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) > Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jens > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:38 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Re: Enablement - Pentax ES > > > > "Electronic Shutter" - thanks Jeffery, I didn't know/did not figure that > out. Yeah, that's right - it's step less. > > Regards > Jens > -- > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > On Jan 23, 2011 17:14 "Jeffery Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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.
