Have you guys seen what mint spotmatics sell for now? like $20 on ebay
its unbeleivable low
On 4/5/2017 6:15 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
My Mamiya 1000TL died about then. I had been shooting with it for years and had
acquired four M42 lenses. So I went to buy a Spotmatic only to find my camera
store had only the new Pentax K cameras. If the counter guy had explained the
screw mount adapter I probably would have gone for a Pentax K. But he didn't,
so I bought a Fuji 801 M42 camera. Good technology and I probably shot over
100,000 frames with it over ten years or so and made quite a bit of money.
Finally got my Pentaxes used in the late '80s. First an H3v, then a bunch of
Spotmatics and Spotmatic Fs. I made up for lost time. Even had an all black
Spotmatic motor drive. Sold that beauty for big bucks to a guy in Japan but
still have my other M42 Pentax cameras. No Ks, but an LX and an MX.
Paul via phone
On Apr 5, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, at 12:49 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:11 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
I still have the MX I bought only a year later.
I've often wondered why Pentax introduced two entirely new
body ranges so close together - they must have had the M-series
bodies well on the way to production by the time the KM/KX/K2
were released.
The answer is Market Forces. If you will recall, everyone made big
body SLRs until Olympus shook up the world with the introduction of
the OM-1 system.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/olympusom1n2/om1/
The Pentax M series was clearly a response to that.
That's always been my understanding, too. But as John pointed out, the
M series appeared only about a year after the K series. That's a very
short time frame for development and production of a new model. If the
M series was a response to the Olympus OM series, Pentax must have had
prior knowledge that the OMs were coming. A spy at Olympus, perhaps?
:-)
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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