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Jean Poitiers · 11-12-2014, 01:51 PM

A weird Nantes swap "mis-match" out of an under-the-table junk bin ... a 10€ gamble.

Tried to talk the seller down, but no go ... 10€ is 10€. The body was in great shape and the Helios worked fine. No battery to test the meter so a "gamble" ...

Got home and plopped in a battery and the meter "works" (somewhat sluggishly) ... but I am a sucker for these Icarex bricks. Love that focus screen ... J

Dangermouse · 11-12-2014, 02:13 PM

Originally posted by Jean Poitiers

I do not know if my meter works ... I popped a battery in but the contact is too corroded and I got "zero" reading ... Need to clean/repair this soon and find out. I was too excited and concentrated on the Jena 50 ... J

Mine had lost one of its battery contacts, strange as that was the only damage to the camera. I made a replacement from a spring and soldered it to the remains of the original, it's a little bit too long as the battery is hard to remove.

I was advised that a AA would be fine, and sure enough the meter reads correctly. However, it's such a fiddle to use stop-down metering on the LLC that I usually just guess the settings.

LesDMess · 11-12-2014, 03:16 PM

Originally posted by Jean Poitiers

A weird Nantes swap "mis-match" out of an under-the-table junk bin ... a 10€ gamble.
Tried to talk the seller down, but no go ... 10€ is 10€. The body was in great shape and the Helios worked fine. No battery to test the meter so a "gamble" ...
Got home and plopped in a battery and the meter "works" (somewhat sluggishly) ... but I am a sucker for these Icarex bricks. Love that focus screen ... J

That is a great buy!
I understand that this is a heavyweight. Interesting that for a late 60s M42 mount SLR, that it has an aperture window. Probably doesn't show for other lenses?
That had me thinking what were actually the first SLRs that showed the aperture.

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 05:34 PM ----------

Originally posted by Jean Poitiers

My silver MX and Spot F that I sent off to Eric ... and I now have a SMC Tak 50/1.4

Would love to have a black of each of these guys. (re-post)

I have a black and a silver (several) SR-T 101 ... it's fun to see them side by side. J

Something like this . . .

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:03 PM ----------

Originally posted by JuanEstrada

Hi you all!

My LX is with Eric so no LX pictures this time, but I think this is very p0rny...

Olympus OM 180mm f2

And those bellow are the results at f2...

hope you enjoy!

Very much so!

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:05 PM ----------

Originally posted by JuanEstrada

I have a Pentax LX, Pentax MX, Pentax KX, Pentax K2, Olympus om2n Olympus om3 Olympus om4t, Nikon f3.

Very nice list!

Nesster · 11-13-2014, 02:02 PM

Originally posted by baro-nite

Yes, clearly you have a problem -- your table is too small!

Exactly what I was going to say

Jean Poitiers · 11-13-2014, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by LesDMess

... Something like this . . .

......

Oh, you're killing me now !!!

Cuthbert · 11-13-2014, 02:19 PM

Originally posted by LesDMess

That is a great buy!
I understand that this is a heavyweight. Interesting that for a late 60s M42 mount SLR, that it has an aperture window. Probably doesn't show for other lenses?
That had me thinking what were actually the first SLRs that showed the aperture.

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 05:34 PM ----------

Something like this . . .

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:03 PM ----------

Very much so!

---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:05 PM ----------

Very nice list!

Me....wants....black...Spottie F!!!

Spotties have sharp eyes...

**Moe49** · 11-13-2014, 05:44 PM

Originally posted by Cuthbert

Me....wants....black...Spottie F!!!

Like this one? Heh ... heh ... heh

This Black Spottie F found me right here at PF Marketplace. The Netherlands' very own Hilo put it up for sale here about 2 1/2 years ago.
The photo is Hilo's, used in the PF ad that drew me in

Last edited by Moe49; 11-15-2014 at 08:56 AM.

Jonathan Mac · 11-14-2014, 01:15 AM

Originally posted by Moe49

Like this one? Heh ... heh ... heh

I found this Black Spottie-F right here at PF Marketplace. The Netherlands' very own Hilo put it up for sale here about 2 1/2 years ago.
The photo is Hilo's, used in the PF ad that drew me in

Beautiful.

I think I need to get a good, fully working Spotmatic. I have an SP1000 with a dodgy meter and an SP500 in which I think the meter works but the 1/500s is a bit of a limitation (yes, I know there's an extra step for 1/1000s but it's uncalibrated and I don't trust it).

Dangermouse · 11-14-2014, 03:09 AM

There was a very clean black Spotmatic II with 50mm f1.4 on ebay UK yesterday, buy it now for £45. Funnily enough it didn't stay for long! Anyone here bag it?

I would have, but for the fact that I've already spent this month's camera budget on a handful of lens hoods...

Jean Poitiers · 11-14-2014, 03:50 AM

Originally posted by Dangermouse

There was a very clean black Spotmatic II with 50mm f1.4 on ebay UK yesterday, buy it now for £45. Funnily enough it didn't stay for long! Anyone here bag it?

I would have, but for the fact that I've already spent this month's camera budget on a handful of lens hoods...

Not me ... wish that I had seen it.

Dangermouse · 11-14-2014, 04:28 AM

Well, to be fair it didn't beat my finest bargain...

In 2012 I managed to pick up a cased Spotmatic (mint aside from a big dent in the top plate) with strap and 50mm f1.4 for...

£7.

Yes, that's not a typo and there are no missing digits! The camera doesn't work properly (capping shutter) but the lens is perfect, and now lives on my good Spotmatic body.

edmundrt · 11-14-2014, 05:12 AM

My Spottie F was £45, and came with an SMC 50/1.8 and a Super-Tak 2/35, genuine Asahi teleconverter and extension tubes, Asahi cable release, strap and ERC. It was so dirty, looked like it had been sitting in the antique shop for about ten years, but when I cleaned it up it was absolutely mint. It's still my favourite camera to use and if I had to save one of my collection in a fire, I'd go for it every time.

When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop.

Jean Poitiers · 11-14-2014, 05:43 AM

Originally posted by edmundrt

My Spottie F was £45, and came with an SMC 50/1.8 and a Super-Tak 2/35, genuine Asahi teleconverter and extension tubes, Asahi cable release, strap and ERC. It was so dirty, looked like it had been sitting in the antique shop for about ten years, but when I cleaned it up it was absolutely mint. It's still my favourite camera to use and if I had to save one of my collection in a fire, I'd go for it every time.

When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop.

You are kidding, aren't you ?! Want, want, want ...

edmundrt · 11-14-2014, 06:39 AM

Absolutely not kidding. The had ESs and ESIIs as well and some real Pentax curios - SMC Pentax 400-600mm zoom anyone? Pentax-F 17-28mm fisheye zoom? Before I went there I couldn't have imagined it - cameras that you'd describe as 'rare' in rows of 10 or 20. A junk box of untested tatty stuff for a thousand yen each, some of it very rare and desirable, but they evidently had so much stock that they just didn't have time to test it.
A real proper shop staffed by two old men - when I took my Pen D3 to the counter and asked if the meter worked, one of them said 'ah, wakaran' ('dunno') and got out a large toolbox full of old batteries and a multimeter. He tested about ten batteries until he found one with some charge left in it, then tested my meter with that before putting them all back in the box.
It was well located, too, just down the road from Yodobashi Camera which means that when you've bought your camera, still reeling from the shock and delight, you can plunge into their film fridge

Here's their occasionally updated stock blog

Cuthbert · 11-14-2014, 09:27 AM

Originally posted by Dangermouse

Yes, that's not a typo and there are no missing digits! The camera doesn't work properly (capping shutter) but the lens is perfect, and now lives on my good Spotmatic body.

The Spottie above is in mint condition, looks new and I paid 60 euros for it with a mint 55 mm f2.0 that was meant to be used on a SP1000.

Being a maniac I bought a 55mm f1.8, an SP1000 body and swapped the lenses...of course later I also bought a Tak 50mm f1.4 and now I mostly use that lens, this means that I've a spare lens for another Spottie F body I assume, possibly black, but most of Pentax black bodies haven't aged well at all, besides the LX that I presume got some advantages from the alluminium skin.

Originally posted by edmundrt

When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop.

Provide the address and email of that camera shop NOW!!!Immediately!

11-13-2014, 02:19 PM	#2301
Cuthbert Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,740	Originally posted by LesDMess That is a great buy! I understand that this is a heavyweight. Interesting that for a late 60s M42 mount SLR, that it has an aperture window. Probably doesn't show for other lenses? That had me thinking what were actually the first SLRs that showed the aperture. ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 05:34 PM ---------- Something like this . . . ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:03 PM ---------- Very much so! ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:05 PM ---------- Very nice list! Me....wants....black...Spottie F!!! Spotties have sharp eyes... Last edited by Cuthbert; 11-13-2014 at 04:23 PM.

11-14-2014, 05:12 AM	#2307
edmundrt Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Nagoya Posts: 577	My Spottie F was £45, and came with an SMC 50/1.8 and a Super-Tak 2/35, genuine Asahi teleconverter and extension tubes, Asahi cable release, strap and ERC. It was so dirty, looked like it had been sitting in the antique shop for about ten years, but when I cleaned it up it was absolutely mint. It's still my favourite camera to use and if I had to save one of my collection in a fire, I'd go for it every time. When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop. Last edited by edmundrt; 11-14-2014 at 05:37 AM.

11-14-2014, 06:39 AM	#2309
edmundrt Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Nagoya Posts: 577	Absolutely not kidding. The had ESs and ESIIs as well and some real Pentax curios - SMC Pentax 400-600mm zoom anyone? Pentax-F 17-28mm fisheye zoom? Before I went there I couldn't have imagined it - cameras that you'd describe as 'rare' in rows of 10 or 20. A junk box of untested tatty stuff for a thousand yen each, some of it very rare and desirable, but they evidently had so much stock that they just didn't have time to test it. A real proper shop staffed by two old men - when I took my Pen D3 to the counter and asked if the meter worked, one of them said 'ah, wakaran' ('dunno') and got out a large toolbox full of old batteries and a multimeter. He tested about ten batteries until he found one with some charge left in it, then tested my meter with that before putting them all back in the box. It was well located, too, just down the road from Yodobashi Camera which means that when you've bought your camera, still reeling from the shock and delight, you can plunge into their film fridge Here's their occasionally updated stock blog Last edited by edmundrt; 11-14-2014 at 07:04 AM.

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11-12-2014, 01:51 PM	#2296
Jean Poitiers Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 18,076	A weird Nantes swap "mis-match" out of an under-the-table junk bin ... a 10€ gamble. Tried to talk the seller down, but no go ... 10€ is 10€. The body was in great shape and the Helios worked fine. No battery to test the meter so a "gamble" ... Got home and plopped in a battery and the meter "works" (somewhat sluggishly) ... but I am a sucker for these Icarex bricks. Love that focus screen ... J

11-12-2014, 02:13 PM	#2297
Dangermouse Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 283	Originally posted by Jean Poitiers I do not know if my meter works ... I popped a battery in but the contact is too corroded and I got "zero" reading ... Need to clean/repair this soon and find out. I was too excited and concentrated on the Jena 50 ... J Mine had lost one of its battery contacts, strange as that was the only damage to the camera. I made a replacement from a spring and soldered it to the remains of the original, it's a little bit too long as the battery is hard to remove. I was advised that a AA would be fine, and sure enough the meter reads correctly. However, it's such a fiddle to use stop-down metering on the LLC that I usually just guess the settings.

11-12-2014, 03:16 PM	#2298
LesDMess Pentaxian Join Date: May 2011 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Photos: Albums Posts: 3,235	Originally posted by Jean Poitiers A weird Nantes swap "mis-match" out of an under-the-table junk bin ... a 10€ gamble. Tried to talk the seller down, but no go ... 10€ is 10€. The body was in great shape and the Helios worked fine. No battery to test the meter so a "gamble" ... Got home and plopped in a battery and the meter "works" (somewhat sluggishly) ... but I am a sucker for these Icarex bricks. Love that focus screen ... J That is a great buy! I understand that this is a heavyweight. Interesting that for a late 60s M42 mount SLR, that it has an aperture window. Probably doesn't show for other lenses? That had me thinking what were actually the first SLRs that showed the aperture. ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 05:34 PM ---------- Originally posted by Jean Poitiers My silver MX and Spot F that I sent off to Eric ... and I now have a SMC Tak 50/1.4 Would love to have a black of each of these guys. (re-post) I have a black and a silver (several) SR-T 101 ... it's fun to see them side by side. J Something like this . . . ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:03 PM ---------- Originally posted by JuanEstrada Hi you all! My LX is with Eric so no LX pictures this time, but I think this is very p0rny... Olympus OM 180mm f2 And those bellow are the results at f2... hope you enjoy! Very much so! ---------- Post added 11-12-14 at 06:05 PM ---------- Originally posted by JuanEstrada I have a Pentax LX, Pentax MX, Pentax KX, Pentax K2, Olympus om2n Olympus om3 Olympus om4t, Nikon f3. Very nice list!

11-13-2014, 02:02 PM	#2299
Nesster Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NJ USA Photos: Gallery Posts: 13,072	Originally posted by baro-nite Yes, clearly you have a problem -- your table is too small! Exactly what I was going to say

11-13-2014, 02:06 PM	#2300
Jean Poitiers Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 18,076	Originally posted by LesDMess ... Something like this . . . ...... Oh, you're killing me now !!!

11-13-2014, 05:44 PM	#2302
Moe49 Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 874	Originally posted by Cuthbert Me....wants....black...Spottie F!!! Like this one? Heh ... heh ... heh This Black Spottie F found me right here at PF Marketplace. The Netherlands' very own Hilo put it up for sale here about 2 1/2 years ago. The photo is Hilo's, used in the PF ad that drew me in Last edited by Moe49; 11-15-2014 at 08:56 AM.

11-14-2014, 01:15 AM	#2303
Jonathan Mac Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 10,887	Originally posted by Moe49 Like this one? Heh ... heh ... heh I found this Black Spottie-F right here at PF Marketplace. The Netherlands' very own Hilo put it up for sale here about 2 1/2 years ago. The photo is Hilo's, used in the PF ad that drew me in Beautiful. I think I need to get a good, fully working Spotmatic. I have an SP1000 with a dodgy meter and an SP500 in which I think the meter works but the 1/500s is a bit of a limitation (yes, I know there's an extra step for 1/1000s but it's uncalibrated and I don't trust it).

11-14-2014, 03:09 AM	#2304
Dangermouse Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 283	There was a very clean black Spotmatic II with 50mm f1.4 on ebay UK yesterday, buy it now for £45. Funnily enough it didn't stay for long! Anyone here bag it? I would have, but for the fact that I've already spent this month's camera budget on a handful of lens hoods...

11-14-2014, 03:50 AM	#2305
Jean Poitiers Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 18,076	Originally posted by Dangermouse There was a very clean black Spotmatic II with 50mm f1.4 on ebay UK yesterday, buy it now for £45. Funnily enough it didn't stay for long! Anyone here bag it? I would have, but for the fact that I've already spent this month's camera budget on a handful of lens hoods... Not me ... wish that I had seen it.

11-14-2014, 04:28 AM	#2306
Dangermouse Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 283	Well, to be fair it didn't beat my finest bargain... In 2012 I managed to pick up a cased Spotmatic (mint aside from a big dent in the top plate) with strap and 50mm f1.4 for... £7. Yes, that's not a typo and there are no missing digits! The camera doesn't work properly (capping shutter) but the lens is perfect, and now lives on my good Spotmatic body.

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11-14-2014, 05:43 AM	#2308
Jean Poitiers Pentaxian Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 18,076	Originally posted by edmundrt My Spottie F was £45, and came with an SMC 50/1.8 and a Super-Tak 2/35, genuine Asahi teleconverter and extension tubes, Asahi cable release, strap and ERC. It was so dirty, looked like it had been sitting in the antique shop for about ten years, but when I cleaned it up it was absolutely mint. It's still my favourite camera to use and if I had to save one of my collection in a fire, I'd go for it every time. When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop. You are kidding, aren't you ?! Want, want, want ...

11-14-2014, 09:27 AM	#2310
Cuthbert Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,740	Originally posted by Dangermouse Yes, that's not a typo and there are no missing digits! The camera doesn't work properly (capping shutter) but the lens is perfect, and now lives on my good Spotmatic body. The Spottie above is in mint condition, looks new and I paid 60 euros for it with a mint 55 mm f2.0 that was meant to be used on a SP1000. Being a maniac I bought a 55mm f1.8, an SP1000 body and swapped the lenses...of course later I also bought a Tak 50mm f1.4 and now I mostly use that lens, this means that I've a spare lens for another Spottie F body I assume, possibly black, but most of Pentax black bodies haven't aged well at all, besides the LX that I presume got some advantages from the alluminium skin. Originally posted by edmundrt When I was in Japan in April, I went to a tiny camera shop - and when I say tiny, I mean the size of the average kitchen but containing about a thousand cameras - in the basement of a karaoke club in Shinjuku. At the time I was experimenting with half frame and got myself an Olympus Pen D3 but now I really regret not buying one of the ten or so new old stock black Spotmatics still in their original packaging on the shelf. I'm concerned that when I return next summer I may just buy the whole shop. Provide the address and email of that camera shop NOW!!!Immediately!