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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-27-2023, 10:23 AM
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Always amuses me when reading a new review of a camera that I have been shooting with for over 47 years...
Thanks for posting!
Phil.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-22-2022, 12:04 AM
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The 50 year anniversary of the K Series launch is coming up in 2025. I'd be happy with a "KX 2025", exactly the same as the original KX. I don't really need anything else added to an already prefect mechanical camera.
If an advanced SLR is also released, then a new LX is the perfect solution.
Phil.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-17-2021, 08:51 AM
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I own all the best cameras because they are the ones i have. Cameras i dont have are of no use to me.
For ex mple my MX is the best film camer a Pentax made including all the other MX inxluding the beaitiful black ones but my MX is thr best forvor to me.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-04-2021, 04:39 PM
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-11-2020, 12:41 AM
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Comparing my MX and SV, the SV has a lot less magnification (obviously) and the VF is generally dimmer, but it certainly has a lot more relaxed eyepoint relief (if that's the right word?). I think it would work well for a glasses wearer.
I don't think the KX and SV viewfinders share anything in common. The SV was a much earlier camera, coming out before the m42 Spotmatic line.
FWIW the SV is an absolute gem, one of the nicest mechanical SLR's I've used.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
01-04-2020, 06:33 AM
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I'm not using Flickr, since many years I have a Smugmug account which is even more expensive. But I am very happy with the stability and performance of that platform and also with the very fast and efficient support (needed it only twice, but a pleasant experience).
I would never expect to receive any reasonable value for free, at least not for an extended period of time.
Compared to the costs of our photography hobby something like 1 $ per week seems fairly irrelevant to me.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
01-04-2020, 02:37 AM
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Hm. Frustration about the end of what amounts to a pay-one-get-one-free deal leads to people leaving an image hosting site. :rolleyes: I mean, seriously, how is SmugMug supposed to keep Flickr sustainably afloat with such a model when only a few per cent of users bother to get a Pro account? Also, don't really see the need to commit to a hosting service two years in advance when their one-year plan at 50 bucks remains in place.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-28-2019, 08:30 AM
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My guess is that most people will only vote for a camera they have actually had the chance to use, and many more people have been able to handle / use an MX than the much-pricier LX. The MZ-S may be a wonderful camera, but I have only ever seen pictures of one, I've never handled one and I've never used one. Therefore, I didn't vote for it.
We should also keep in mind this whole thing was A BIT OF FUN. The results are not entirely meaningless, but we shouldn't put too much weight on exactly where each individual model came.
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Isn't the whole history of photography a story of convenience/capability versus quality? I love the quality I get from my 5x4 but I'm not going to take party snaps with it. As I wander around a beautiful historic church clutching nothing but my Pentax Q-S1 I regret at least not bringing the K-3 plus 28mm shift, if not the full LF gear. As great as the image quality is of a 6x7, not many want to lug that weight of equipment around for very long. The old aphorism that the best camera is the one you have with you has some truth to it. For many, 35mm offered, for very many years, the best compromise between quality and convenience.
K.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-24-2019, 05:33 AM
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The P-series bodies and the Super Program (I have examples of both) are just that little bit bulkier all around than the M series. It's enough to notice. The other thing about the M's is that they are the last Pentax bodies of any kind to have any sort of manual reversion, except for the LX, which is in a very different category.
The ultimate compact travel SLR is, in my opinion, the ME with the 40mm M pancake. If you are just shooting casually, aperture priority is enough. If you really need to fudge it, you have a two-stop exposure compensation dial. If you needed more than that, you were there for something different and you should have taken an MX. If the batteries fail, there are smartphone apps that will tell you which aperture you should set for 1/100 second.
I wouldn't go with an MV-1 because it simply isn't telling me enough about what it's doing. I wouldn't want to put my camera-buying decisions in the hands of the linked article's author.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-17-2019, 02:57 AM
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Thanks for shampoo idea. ;-)
Hello everyone, I am Samuel Mello Medeiros created from I'm Back digital back to 35mm and now also for the medium format. Ok, first of all, I'm Back is a toy and as such should be seen. Do not buy it to a camera mirrorlles or a dslr or even a cell phone, because they are deceiving themselves. My idea years ago was to get more people to put their hands on their old analogue camera to have fun with it. Everything here. But there are people who take this toy a little more seriously and can make a beautiful movie like this, using a simple Zenith 122 and an Helios 58mm:
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Or I using here a Pentax ME super 50mm f1.7:
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Chers,
Samuel
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-08-2019, 01:21 AM
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Ideally I'd have a proper ground glass screen and nothing else. I shoot by framing the shot first, then focus by looking at wherever the most important element of the shot happens to be. Any sort of centre focusing aid means focusing and recomposing, so I'm happier without them.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-07-2018, 08:40 AM
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Howdy,
Just curious, what would have been the main competition for the Pentax SV during the time it was manufactured? The Nikon F, or the Nikkormat FS perhaps?
This camera is incredible. The tactile satisfaction it offers is unmatched by the other Pentax film cameras I've handled so far (SP F, MX, and even the LX). I'd like to learn a little bit more about the historical context around it.
Cheers,
Ed
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-09-2018, 02:11 PM
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-30-2018, 06:01 PM
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Whenever people ask me for advice on what camera to get, I have always told them to "try them" and then get the one that suits them the best. And at the end of the day, you are not "forced" to use the automation. Even on a K1, you could set speed, aperture and manual focus. Then use it exactly as you suggest. ;)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-19-2018, 01:09 PM
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It's a popular camera, gets mentioned a lot in guides for people that want to try film and don't read about other options. For some it seems easier to spend more money than to do a little bit of research. I also find it incredible that it's more expensive than most other manual focus Pentax cameras (super program, km, kx, sometimes even mx). On Google trends, last time I checked, it was the most popular Pentax cameras of the ones I tried, including some recent digital models.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-16-2018, 03:55 AM
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Pentax hasn't manufactured a film camera in over 15 years. The models I like and use are far older than that.
New replacement parts are unavailable. IMO any repair on these old cameras is now on a "best effort" basis.
A Nikon F6 or Leica M-A or MP are the only 35mm film cameras said to be still in production; I presume factory repair is still available.
But I can't afford their prices for what is just a hobby, so I'll keep sending my old Pentax cameras to Eric.
Considering the age of these old cameras and lack of spare parts Eric's success rate with my numerous repairs has been exemplary.
I still recommend him without reservation.
Chris
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-10-2018, 01:16 PM
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Hello Forum,
I ask myself this question every now and then, why do I collect these old cameras. A few reasons:
1) The beauty of the design and the physical feeling of holding the camera.
2) Fascination of the quality and the quirkiness of these machines produced by Asahi Opt. Co.
3) The admiration of the innovation behind these early models.
4) The sheer number of variants within the same model range in the early days.
A good example of variants is with the S2 model. Introduced in May 1959 and some variants in production until August 1968, a long-lived model name. According to van Oosten, about 180 000 were made. From various source, I have found that these variants were available:
Common for Model I and II: Shutter speed range: 1sec – 1/500sec B and T, and back door opens by pulling the level on the side of the door down.
Model I:
Manufactured May 1959 – April 1961
Manual reset of exposure counter. Both black and chrome bodies available. There are even some variants on the bottom plate and the recess holding the rewind button.
Names: Asahi Pentax S2, Asahi Pentax H2, Asahiflex H2, Penta Asahiflex H2, Asahi Pentax SB, Honeywell Heiland Pentax H2 and Honeywell Heiland Pentax H2 engraved “Store Demonstrator”.
The Asahi Pentax S2 was for the most parts sold in Japan and Europe, but you will also find Asahi Pentax H2 sold in Europe, a bit odd since the H is associated with the Heiland brand.
The Asahiflex name, as you all know, was the name engraved on the early non-pentaprism SLRs. Due to some disagreements with Pentacon in some markets, the camera S2 was sold as Asahiflex H2 or Penta Asahiflex H2. See the enclosed photos to illustrate the manuals for these cameras.
In Japanese defense stores, the S2 was sold designated as Asahi Pentax SB. If I recall correctly, there are even some models sold in US overseas military stores that made it over to the US with some manual changes to the name, or they were engraved with No-Tax.
For sale in the US, Asahi Opt Co cooperated with Honeywell, thus the cameras for sale there was marked Honeywell Heiland Pentax H2. Around 1000 cameras were engraved “store demonstrators”, for resellers to demonstrate the camera to potential customers. Fun fact, only S2 (H2) and S3 (H3) used the Heiland name, H1, H3v and H1a used just Honeywell Pentax.
Model II:
Manufactured April 1961 – December 1963
Identical to model 1 except for the now automatic reset of the exposure counter and a notch in the speed dial to accommodate the clip-on exposure meter that came to market in 1961, called model I, with the oval dial.
Model IIIa:
Manufactured from July 1962 – August 1968
Not really called model III, but rather S2 Super. This camera was only sold in the Japanese market. Like the S1a/H1a sold in other markets. Shutter speed was now 1/1000 sec. The exposure counter needs manual resetting.
The camera body did not have the word Super engraved, just Asahi Pentax S2. For the Japanese defense, a Asahi Pentax SB2 was available.
Modell IIIb:
Identical to the IIIa model, expect for the now automatic reset of the exposure counter. There is even a variant without the two screws on each side of the viewfinder window.
Rare?
The Asahi Pentax S2 is not rare, but some of the name variants are hard to find, maybe even impossible. I would put them in this order, with the rarest first: Penta Asahiflex H2, Asahi Pentax SB/SB2, Honeywell Heiland Pentax H2 engraved “Store Demonstrator”, Asahiflex H2 and Asahi Pentax S2 Super. The most common are Asahi Pentax S2/H2 and Honeywell Heiland Pentax H2. Black is more rare than chrome, about 10% were made black.
With all of these variants, you never run out of new cameras to add to the collection.
Why do you collect?
Cheers,
Baard-Einar.
PS: the two first photos of the Asahiflex manual is borrowed from eBay.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-05-2018, 04:37 PM
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Um,I think this was someone elses thread that you hijacked for your rant,just sayin.:confused:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-04-2018, 02:59 PM
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Yet still the long diatribe?
Having worked in retail for ten years and in service businesses for 30+ years I smell a crank.
Chris
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-05-2018, 03:54 AM
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Film camera reached for first: MX. Size and full manual control make this my go-to. I also reach for an ME sometimes, with colour film. My ME's batteries died on me in the field recently, but fortunately the light was low enough that I could go to flash sync speed (1/100) even with 400ASA film in the camera and use my camera's light meter app to help me set the aperture. Thank God for that manual backup.
Sentimental favourite: P3. This was my late father-in-law's, and inheriting it got me back into film.
M42 favourites: Spotmatic F for general use, often with the S-M-C Takumar 50/4.0 macro and colour film loaded as a walkaround lens (because I seldom need anything faster than f/4.0 in summer, and having macro can be useful). S1a when I want to slow down and give my Sekonic meter a workout. I also have a couple of vanilla Spotmatics (one an Asahi, one a Honeywell), one of which I bought to see what the fuss was about and the other which I got with a lens I wanted. Both their batteries appear to be dead, and I should get on and replace those. I could use them battery-less, but the S1a is slightly smaller all round and seems to suit me better ergonomically.
For me, small is beautiful.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-03-2018, 11:06 AM
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47 film cameras at last count. 3 are non-functional.
Of the Pentax variety, it looks something like this more or less currently.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-01-2018, 01:04 PM
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When it comes to cameras, some of us are minimalists, and some of us are collectors.
How many film cameras do you have, and are all of them functional?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-17-2018, 12:53 PM
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I was given an SV that had been sitting on a shelf in someone's garage. Covered in filth. I cleaned the outside and it basically works! Shutter fires but sounds a bit dry, only problem is B doesn't work. It does need a lot of TLC however , as the filth had got inside. It felt so good in my hands I lashed out £25 on eBay for a fully working one. It IS fully working , seals in good order except for the mirror bumper, and that someone has used something scratchy to clean the mirror - viewfinder still pretty bright though.
This is a marvellous camera. It may change my whole mind about what film cameras I want to shoot in the future. It does what the Zent B I started my SLR career with did, plus a few extras but nothing that intrudes on making a photograph. And it does everything with elegance that the poor old B did crudely.
I won't do a review until I calm down a bit.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-21-2018, 07:57 AM
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If LBA is such a problem, you can always glue one lense to the camera. That shoukd cure you ;)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-01-2018, 10:32 AM
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I expect I'm the last to know but I recently came across this YouTube channel which reviews both film cameras and films I found it interesting.
go to - Analog Insights
Analog Insights - YouTube |
