Originally posted by gofour3 A KX is a good option, not much wrong with this body and it's very reliable.
Phil.
100% agree.
Yes, the ME Super has a beautifully bright viewfinder and an exceptional focusing screen, but the previous ME let a lot of people down compared to the "K" cameras and aside from the new photocell the MX didn't offer much for the high price it sold for. During the OM camera imitation (downsizing) phase the Super was the ''bright" spot on the way to the LX. It was this confused model lineup with virtually no North American advertising that seemed to make a large part of the serious amateur and professional camera buying public no longer seriously consider Pentax other than for the "beginner" K1000.
It was much easier for us locally to sell the better featured and lower priced Ricoh k mount cameras instead.
Ricoh wasn't offering any breakthrough features though, only producing the XR-1 and XR-2 with features very similar to the just discontinued Pentax K models.
Then even the LX was never updated and always high-priced so it only appealed to an ever decreasing niche of dedicated Pentax users.