| Latest Review Posted | Pentax P3N / P30N
Whenever I encounter this model, i get depressed. Because this was one of the cameras I considered when I wanted to buy a new camera back in 1989. I am Iranian and I lost my Zenit camera in the time I was a refugee in India and Pakistan. After two years I came to Norway and camera was one of my first priorities in my new life. The seller recommended this camera and I got the brochure for P30N along with the canon EOS 1000. I studied, but I didn't understand much. I just understood that the Canon was Auto focus and had several programs, whereas the Pentax was a manual camera. P30N was considerably cheaper but stupid me chose the EOS 1000 an entry level, fully plastic with not essential feature like self release which I hated. After a few years I sold the Canon and bought a used Chinon CE3 Memotron with 28 f2.8, 55 f1.7 and 75-205 f3.5. I fall in love with the feel of all metal lenses and continued with manual cameras until 2006 I got K10d and officially become a Pentaxian.
Many of us, myself included, love this series of cameras, but I think in fact this series was the beginning to make Pentax smaller and smaller. It is a very strange phenomenon, Pentax comes with SFX the first ever Auto focus camera with TTL flash metering and a few years later drop the autofocus system and get back to manual. Call people stupid. I have no problem to admit my own stupidity, but you cannot change people. Business is business, it's about earning money. It is not a cultural work. I think Canon ... |
