My daughter took a B&W film photography Winter-term class in college recently that REQUIRED a fully manual camera. The class was 4 weeks in New Mexico and the weather caused batteries to fail. Every single student brought a CLA'ed 70's film camera - half of them were Pentax, some F1's some F series Nikon, etc. She had my KX and the required 4 focal lengths of K Pentax lenses.
First day the instructor inspected cameras. Her instructor knew precisely what she had, praised it and reviewed with her the complete techniques of using it (Av Judas window, self-timer and MLU versus K1000) - and did the same for every other student and camera. Then told the class about K-mount compatibility, though he used Nikon. And featured something about every other brand.
It's all about what the instructor knows and wants to accomplish.
Last edited by monochrome; 02-02-2014 at 10:20 AM.