| Latest Review Posted | Pentax Super A / Super Program
Back in '83 this was the camera of my dreams. It offered everything a camera could have back then apart from an AE-lock button and spot-metering. I Bought it in the first months it appeared on the European market and kept it in operation till late '98.
It had many advantages:
Fully built from metal - and no, the top cover is not plastic (I can prove it, on my camera the black color is worn off on all the edges and brass shines through).
It is almost as small and ligth-weight as the ME, but it is more handy due to the detachable grip
Itīs got an almost perfect view finder
It offers fully automatic program - or any variant of (semi-)manual operation
Most important of all: It introduced TTL-flash metering.
Things that I sometimes missed during the 15 years I have used it:
There is no dedicated double-exposure feature. As with most of the Pentax SLRs you have to press the rewind-button and then hold the rewind-crank while turning the wind lever. As a young guy I had many crazy ideas for double-exposures, therefore I found this issue quite cumbersome
In few occasions I would have desired spotmetering
In even less occasions I missed the AE-lock button
Later on, during the AF-age I used a MZ-3 (very similar to the US model ZX-5n), but this one has plastic exterior and it feels like plastic. Now I'm using the K-5 which somewhat comes close to the Super A, but still, I miss my bright and large viewfinder that the Super A had.
Last but not least: My Super A took some 12000 sh... |
