Hi! On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/14/2012 8:07 PM, Dmitry Gromov wrote: >> >> Yeah, I know about early and late models and the differences, wanted to >> get newer one, hope it more common, but there is no way to know it from >> KEH's description :( Thanks! Dmitry > > > You might want to email KEH and ask about the sensitivity range. My LX is a > leter model, but I had it modified so that the meter activated when the > button that releases the ISO dial is pressed. I might be wrong but I think > that might have been a feature of the latest LX's - not sure of that at all > though. Someone else here might know. But that might be something else to > check into. >
Well, I already emailed them recently, inquiring about one of the LXes... Took almost a week and couple repeat emails for sales to respond and was told that they are in one place and warehouse is in different place and no more details about camera is available. I find it really strange... It looked like they were not really interested in sale :( As for differences in LX models - Bojidar Dimitrov's Pentax K-Mount Page have some info here: LX (late version) http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/bodies/film_LX/LX_new.html But he does not mention ISO (however difference is seen in the spec tables). There are other places on the net, which outline those differences - much easier to find now-days than 10 years ago :) (I've been subscribed to original PDML still hosted by Pentax, so I remember). > An LX in good working condition will have fabulous low light performance. > Open the shutter in a darkened room, leave, and it will expose the film for > many minutes or even hours and then shut down when the correct exposure is > achieved. Really cool, hard on batteries. That is the feature that keeps > failing on my LX.Right now, I might get good one or two minute exposures, > but when it gets long the camera just leaves the shutter open forever. I've > had that fixed 3 times, it works for a while but it just doesn't stick. So > if you get an LX with a return policy, test to be sure it does longer > exposures - at least 15 minutes. The real time metering on mine still works > - turn on the room lights and the shutter closes - it just does not work in > fairly dim situations for really long exposures. > Ok, great thanks for the tip, will definitely check it out! Dmitry -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- 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.
