Keith, Looking at the intro date of 1981 for the MG, I would guess it is an ME with a new name. Think about it as a marketing ploy. Pentax says... "We are going to introduce the ME Super, now how are we going to keep the customers from confusing this with the ME and recognizing all the extra functionality we built in. I've got it! We'll stop making the ME, introduce the ME Super for a bit higher price, and when the distributors are out of the ME, we'll introduce the MG... same camera as the ME, but with slightly reduced (more realistic?) specs than the ME. We can price it at a bit less than the ME Super and more than the MV." Regards, Bob S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Check out Mr. D's site at <http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/>. Go to the bottom of the screen, and select "Bodies," then "Body Data & Descriptions" then finally "M-series" bodies. All the info is there on his chart... Seem to be almost identical, don't they? It might be that the MG did replace the basic ME, functionally, while the ME went off and became the ME-F and the ME-Super...but that's a wild guess on my part. I'm too new at this to make intelligent suppositions like that! <BG> >>
