Originally posted by Ray-uk Again, thank you. Looking through the list and checking that earlier link makes me suspect that, as long as Pentax issued serial numbers sequentially, mine would be a 'late' model, but made sometime between 1966 and '67.
The difficulty is the purchase dates are often quoted by newer owners well after the original sale. But there are two listed that mine appears to lie between -
1211890 bought in July 1966
and
1282256 bought in December 1967,
so probably closer to late '66 and early '67.
It's amazing to me that I was a small child not even aware of photography when it was made, yet nearly half a century later it looks almost new and works fine. I wonder how many regularly used new digital cameras will work in 2065?