Originally posted by Pioneer I am willing to give it a try though I am pretty sure it will take a lot more than that to make me a better photographer
learning to see, is what will make you a better photographer. nothing else is more important than that. as for meters vs non-meter in cameras, i would certainly argue in favor of restricting yourself can be freeing in other ways, which can be very beneficial to learning photography, more importantly, be beneficial to learning to see. but I think it may not be for everyone. I would however urge anyone and everyone trying take photography seriously, to pick up a camera like this. because forcing yourself to think in new ways, and to see in new ways will be far more beneficial in learning what needs to be learned. a quote I always go to is by the late garry winogrand: "You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.”
you don’t need a complicated camera to learn to see. in fact I would argue in most cases that the more complicated your equipment, the more difficult it is to learn. there is little difference in basic idea between a spotmatic and a pre-spotmatic camera in truth, because besides a subtle change in body design the only real difference in paper is the built in meter, so you could use a spotmatic with no batteries and get the same thing. but there is something special indeed about the pre-spotmatic Pentax cameras, and anyone who used one will likely agree.