In 1966, I was a young Marine in Viet Nam. I had brought a cheap camera with me, but became fascinated with a Minolta 101 SLR that a friend had acquired in Japan. I got a ride to a larger Air Force PX that stocked cameras. They were out of the Minolta, but the clerk showed me an Asahi Spotmatic, and told me the camera was about the same, but the Asahi lenses were supposed to be better. Since I didn't know when I could get back, I took him at his word and bought the camera. How did he know? The bottom line is that I got into Pentax by dumb luck.
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