Post by belgiumreporter on Nov 21, 2015 8:21:28 GMT -5
One more to make my collection complete. The Pentax spotmatic F launched in 1973 was a further developement of the line of spotmatics wich started in 1964. In this version it finally recieved (automatic) open aperture metering.
There's no metering switch wich means the meter is allways on exept if lightlevels go below EV2 for a while so unless you want to drain the battery it was advisable to keep a lens cap at hand.
I like these pentaxes because of their significance in camea history, along with other well made japanese cameras they wiped away (west) German competition. When launched in the early sixties the public wasn't very keen on japanese "toys" but soon, throughout the sixties and finally the early seventies these kind of cameras established their place and fame amongst amateurs and professionals. The fact that half a century later these cameras still work without to much problems only proves the Japanese camera craftmanship (and lens making) was on a very high level. I will never turn down a fine all mechanical slr certainly not at the bargain prices at wich they can be had right now ( how long will these low prices last, early 50'ties Japanese slr's are getting very expensive)
On a strange note, the spotmatic SP1000 and SP500 never had spotmatic written on them, i can't seem to figure out why...maybe some Pentax specialist can help me out with this.
There's no metering switch wich means the meter is allways on exept if lightlevels go below EV2 for a while so unless you want to drain the battery it was advisable to keep a lens cap at hand.
I like these pentaxes because of their significance in camea history, along with other well made japanese cameras they wiped away (west) German competition. When launched in the early sixties the public wasn't very keen on japanese "toys" but soon, throughout the sixties and finally the early seventies these kind of cameras established their place and fame amongst amateurs and professionals. The fact that half a century later these cameras still work without to much problems only proves the Japanese camera craftmanship (and lens making) was on a very high level. I will never turn down a fine all mechanical slr certainly not at the bargain prices at wich they can be had right now ( how long will these low prices last, early 50'ties Japanese slr's are getting very expensive)
On a strange note, the spotmatic SP1000 and SP500 never had spotmatic written on them, i can't seem to figure out why...maybe some Pentax specialist can help me out with this.
