Originally posted by totsmuyco I believe the Pentax community is really small even during the film days. I've only seen 4 people using Pentax during the 80s. Marketing in the Philippines must've been wrong. Canon and Nikon always dominated the scene. Minolta was quite popular too.
Originally posted by normhead Where is here?
One can assume 'here' is the Philippines. In the film days, Pentax was not at all "really small" globally. They were easily in the top 5 with Nikon, Canon, Minolta, and Olympus, and because of their presence with both the 67 and 645, I'd say number three. A whole generation of photographers learned photography with a K1000 in the U.S. Much less common 35mm SLR cameras included Konica, Topcon, Yashica, Alpa, Contax, Leica, and Ricoh.