| Latest Review Posted | Pentax KX
When my original 1957 Asahi Pentax shutters got too worn, I sold it to a collector and bought a used KX with 55/1.8 lens and a mount adapter K to continue using my screw mount lenses until I could replace them with bayonet lenses. It worked hard for me, and it always worked. I traded it on an SF-1 when I was a stringer taking sports for a newspaper and discovered that my KX did not have the winder drive on the bottom. To this day, I regret not keeping it. I see that others say the viewfinder was dark, but coming from the old original, I did not find that. Perhaps the change from f/2.2 to f/1.8 compensated, but I never had troubles focusing with the camera. The screen was split prism. I frankly still prefer a viewfinder without focus aids, but with good grain, and my K10D is wearing an LL-60 screen for that reason.
I can recommend a KX to anyone who wants an excellent camera to shoot with film. For my stringer duties, I used print film, but I have a huge number of slides from my personal photography. |
