I’ve used Canon mirrorless full-frame cameras for years now, exclusively. Until now, I had never used a Pentax. But the K3-III Monochrome piqued my interest, for two reasons: I miss having fun with a DSLR, and I’m fascinated with black and white photography. (Old-school, on both accounts.) In sh...

The K-70 is an exceptionally capable camera with few weaknesses. It's a definite step up from the K-50, with 24MP and an articulating screen, and Pentax brained up and resolved the aperture solenoid issue in later production K-70s. My one beef with the K-70 is battery life - it's very short in nor...

The P30t is the first film camera I ever used, and I think as a learner's camera it does a decent job, being an electronic camera that can also shoot manually. It also has the K mount, so there are endless lens options. I'll admit that it feels a smidge plasticky in hand but it's not too bad. It's p...

This is genuinely such a good camera, I love taking photos with mine. I went through a lot of trial and error and a few cameras before I got to my MX but I'm so glad I did. Since it's so small (as far as 35mm SLRs go) it fits in my hands well and is easy to carry around. It's also really well-bui...

I love CCD sensors and the rich colors they make. 6mp is fine for most of what I do. This camera has a poor viewfinder and no liveview, so guys like me that only shoot manual focus lenses are not going to get many keepers. But when I do luck out and get one in critical focus, the rendering is go...

It is one of better 35mm film cameras I ever hold in my hand. There were some more modern ones, more valuable ones etc. but this one has something special and comparing to LX which replaced it K2 is really, really underappreciate d. It is solid, old school solid. Metal brick you could use to kill ...

There is a lot to like about the MX - compact, needs no batteries, very well built, shows the f-stop in the VF. The VF is lovely and large. The film advance is very smooth and the shutter mechanism is pleasant. My main negatives: - VF is noticeably dimmer and grainer than the ME Super or LX. - R...

The Spotmatics are legendary cameras that deserve a place in camera history. They are incredibly reliable, extremely well built (every bit as good at the Nikons, Canons, and Minoltas of the day) - I have three - BUT I confess that I never use them. My main turn off are that they have rather dim ...

The ME super was my first SLR - I had used other cameras before this (the K1000 when I was in school for example) but the ME super was the first one I owned. I guess it does have some sentimental value for me, but I feel its an underrated camera in a lot of ways - the design and feature set is bril...

The Pentax LX was a camera that I lusted over when I was a teen - my parents gifted me a Pentax ME Super in 1983, and you can bet that I poured over camera magazines (remember them?) and brochures and dreamed of owning some of those expensive Pentax primes and of course the LX. Honestly I this ca...