Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread Thibouille
not really based on an MX apart from the shape maybe, but as most M? cameras, MV1 was an auto-aperture only camera, as well as MV ME and MG. Of course those all had electronic shutter but B and X-speed which were mechanical if I'm not mistaken. In fact I never understood why Pentax made so many

speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Is the Pentax MV-1 any good? reliable? It looks like an auto-exposure- only version of the MX ... ?? A guy at the photo store yesterday had one and I thought it looked pretty nice. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Interesting info about the MV-1, thanks. Given the way I shoot a good bit of the time, a simple camera with aperture priority AE, EV compensation and a good lens would be pretty easy to live with. That's pretty much how I used my Minox C and EC cameras, and the Nikon FE2 as well. Godfrey

RE: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread Bob W
] On Behalf Of frank theriault Sent: 07 December 2007 21:57 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ... On Dec 7, 2007 9:30 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Pentax MV-1 any good? reliable? It looks like an auto-exposure

Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread frank theriault
On Dec 7, 2007 9:30 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Pentax MV-1 any good? reliable? It looks like an auto-exposure- only version of the MX ... ?? A guy at the photo store yesterday had one and I thought it looked pretty nice. Was the MV1 the same as (or very similar to)

Re: speaking of old and mouldering Pentax bodies ...

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Desjardins
I bought the MV1 with the m40 for $100 in the early 1980's. I walked into a camera shop in San Francisco while on vacation and the clerk made me an offer. I said no to that but bought the camera anyway. Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/7/2007 11:03 AM not really based on an MX apart from the