Honestly I see the P30t has a very good cheap learning camera. Even now it
is not that bad. It can work in any mode except TV. The absence of TTL is a
non issue when learning IMO, if you learn photography you need to learn
flash too, don't you?
Moreover it has a DOF preview (and no the Z1 has
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From: Steve Jolly
Subject: Re: What's up with the P30t?
My take: it's a cheap consumer SLR with few non-essential
features;
Pentax sold a whole bunch of them back in the late eighties and now
there's a glut. :-)
They were marketed to compete against the low
: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendt: 12. august 2004 15:19
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Emne: Re: What's up with the P30t?
- Original Message -
From: Steve Jolly
Subject: Re: What's up with the P30t?
My take: it's a cheap consumer SLR with few non-essential
features;
Pentax sold
The first roll of film I ran seemed to have set the wrong ASA, oddly
enough it came out exposed fine (probably because it was print film).
Now I'm careful when I put the film in to meter something with no
film (default ASA 100) and make sure that it changes by the right
number of stops for
I've been extremely pleased with my P30t, but from what I can see it
didn't really hold its value very well - only a few for sale on eBay
at lower prices, and they are the cheapest Pentax body on KEH.
Were they overshadowed by the earlier Super/Program series? Was the
build quality lower then
Andrew asked:
I've been extremely pleased with my P30t, but from what I can see it
didn't really hold its value very well - only a few for sale on eBay
at lower prices, and they are the cheapest Pentax body on KEH.
Were they overshadowed by the earlier Super/Program series? Was the
build
Actually the whole P series have pretty low resale value, mainly due to
their limited features (even the top model P50). IMHO the good old ME Super
was a better camera. However, they are great built quality wise, but many of
them have faulty aperture resistors (since then they have moved back
The P3/P30 cameras were the low end bodys in the P series, (The high end
body being the P5/P50), as such they were a bit of a
disappointment to most Pentax aficionados. They have more plastic in
them than the previous M series and don't really have better features
than the A series cameras.
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