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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-12-2023, 06:24 PM
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A Toyota commercial just aired during my local news that prominently featured a vintage Pentax Spotmatic. The story, in 30 seconds, was that a grandmother gifted granddaughter her Spotmatic, the camera she used to capture special scenes in her life. Granddaughter takes a road trip and uses the camera to take new photos of locations she saw in some of her grandmother’s old photos, then she drives to grandmothers house where she shares her new photos, and they have a tearful reunion. I nearly fell out of my chair when the close-up of the Spotmatic appeared on my tv screen. Nicely done commercial that I had never seen until today.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-30-2023, 01:50 AM
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Any Rush fans out there? Just watched a YouTube video from Q1043 New York with Geddy Lee promoting his new book “My Effin’ Life”…in the interview, he noted that the cover photo on the book jacket was taken by his girlfriend when he was just 17 (1970/1971) noting that “she had a little Pentax camera”. They eventually married, and the rest is history…I am reading the book, which was recently released, but thought it worth sharing this little nugget. I wonder which Pentax model she used…
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
10-02-2013, 10:31 PM
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Ok, that's it! Here's my 04 3
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-17-2012, 10:58 PM
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It's funny. I owned a Pentax ME Super, oh back in the 80s...still have it. I was influenced by my college roomate who also owned one...and at the time, Consumer Reports listed it as a top SLR for ease of use. I had the 50 mm F2 lens...as I knew nothing of lenses and had no money to upgrade. My use of it gradually faded...But about a year ago, my youngest daughter started getting into competetive sports. I resurected the old ME Super, bought a decent telephoto lense, and started shooting film again. Then she made her high school varsity team (as a freshman, so forgive me for puffing the old man's chest a little bit here), and low and behold I saw someone else's mom using a Pentax DSLR and the bug hit me. It was time to move make the move and a few months later, found a retailer in Tacoma who actually stocks Pentax gear, and purchsed a K-r. My old lenses worked fine, but the itch to buy some good glass is starting to kick in..."Danger Will Robinson!"...., so to Keyofnight from Seattle...there are at least three of us in Washington State....and at least two in Olympia.
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