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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Which old Pentax S/M models ?
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:17:46 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <TSOS.242.725735866@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <1218@racerx.bridge.COM>
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- Summary: need a body
-
- In article <1218@racerx.bridge.COM> ken@Bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) writes:
-
- >I've a fair selection of decent screw-mount lenses, and an old, old
- >Pentax H1a, which has neither meter nor hot-shoe. Santa was good to me
- >this year, but not quite good enough for that band-new Nikon. So I'm
- >thinking of hitting a local photo show in two weeks to look for a good
- >used Pentax body that takes my current lenses, but has one or more of
- >these features (listed in order of importance):
- >
- > 1. TTL meter
- > 2. Flash hot shoe
- > 3. Aperature-priority A/E mode
- >
- >Acceptance of screw-mount lenses, of course, is a must.
-
- The ES II meets these requirements (and its predecessor, the ES).
- It has TTL metering, a hybrid shutter (1s .. 1/1000s electronically in
- auto exposure mode, or even longer than 1s; 1/60 .. 1/1000 mechanically
- without metering and with dead batteries!), an x hot shoe, and metering
- at open aperture. I used one of these birds for 15 years and was very
- satisfied with it.
-
- Price: around 200..300 US$ equiv. hereabouts, incl. standard lens.
-
- Using the K adaptor on a bayonet body, as another poster suggested,
- restricts you to stop-down metering and manual aperture control and is
- not very convenient.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Detlef
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- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
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