The Spotmatic F has open aperture metering with 'most' SMC Takumar lenses. I wouldn't pay more than $100 for a Spot F unless it came New In Box with all packaging, probably not more than $75 for a Spotmatic. These are old cameras. It's hard to find someone to work on them if they fail let alone find parts for them, (even though I'd wager you could cannibalize an early K1000 for parts for the Spot F, but even that is getting to be an old camera). If you want to test all of the capabilities of the lens you will probably want the Spot F. If all you want to do is check on it's optical properties you could just look around for a screw to K mount adapter and use the lens in a stopdown manual mode on your present camera.
At 01:21 AM 3/12/2002 +0000, you wrote: >Well, after some time I am back to Japan and in my first visit to the >local camera store, I picked up a used SMCT 200/f4. A bit battered on >outside, might be that the lens was opened by the previous owner for >cleaning but with a burgain proce of Yen 3000, I thought I should give it >a try. Now, to test it I need a screw mount body, I have seen two >Spotmatic on the rack one is normal Spotmatic and the other one is >Spotmatic F. What is the difference >? Which one should I buy ? >Also how much should I pay for a SP in good shape with the meter working ? > >Regards, >Prasanta. >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
