LX is a wonderful camera. All your digitals will feel like fat pigs in comparison. The exposure metering is masterful, and the range of viewfinder accessories is outstanding.
If you are lucky, somebody else fixed the sticky mirror. When you get the camera, don't just fire off some shutter snaps. The camera won't have been exercised in about one week. Take the lens off, winde the shutter, and watch in the front as you fire. If the mirror does a little hesitation before it rises, go to Eric. I've tried to get it done cheaply only to have the problem still haunt me. I have a number of LX's and each has gotten a CLA. If you are really lucky, you might get a very late model without the problem. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I tripped across a cosmetically gorgeous LX body (FA finder) yesterday > and it seemed to be priced right, so I impulsively purchased it (long > distance). *After* doing so, I started doing a little research on it. > : ) > It appears that I may have taken a bit of a gamble, since it looks > like a lot can go wrong with these things and a full CLA from Eric > (pentaxs.com) is going to run $160-200 (!). It won't arrive until next > Tuesday, so I have a lot of time to fret. > : \ > I believe that I bought it reasonably enough that even if I did > nothing to it I could turn around and sell it for at least what I gave > for it, as it sits, so I don't think I have anything big to worry > about. > > I'm hopeful that I can put in a mirror bumper pad and seals in the > film back (myself) and be good to go, but that remains to be seen. I > was hoping that those of you with an LX (or experience with them) > might tell me what sort of issues you had with them (if any) and your > impression of where the LX stands in the Pentax film body family. > > -- > 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.
