Very interesting thread!! I "sold the tar" out of ALL the main brands in the early 80s (Chicago suburbs)... we NEVER looked down our noses at a customer's equipment! Pro, "amateur", or enthusiast... We helped them get the most out of what they already had OR what they bought from us. We sold both new and used and
used Pentax was ALWAYS sought after (so was NEW Pentax!). One of my bosses had pro Nikon for 35mm BUT what did he have for medium format?
PENTAX!! (Pentax 6x7; he had the "renowned" 135mm macro for it, too!) And if you want to "play", you can "run" non-Pentax glass on Pentax bodies (lots of glass on LOTS of Pentax bodies!). I personally used (BESIDES the preferred Pentax!) anything from an Angenieux 35mm semi-wide to Carl Zeiss lenses on my Pentax(es) as well as earlier "Oriental" (Pentax AND non-Pentax) screw mount, T-mount, and "other" lenses using adapters (not to mention "the BIG gun", a 3.5 inch Questar telescope!). Pentax "larger" format lenses (e.g. Pentax 6x7) will also "adapt" (to 35mm bodies) as many of you are aware. AND many (including myself) liked the "smaller, less clunky" Pentax bodies for astrophotography. Who can say that the LX wasn't "advanced" for its time? Some might like a "
DIGITAL (full frame of course!) LX"
today!
Retired now (but "reminiscing"...), ...Normpixel...
Last edited by Normpixel; 01-12-2010 at 12:18 AM.
Reason: "grammar"!