Pentax KX
1975 saw the introduction of the KX as the advanced-amateur model in the Pentax K series lineup, seen as one […]
Surprisingly, given it’s decidedly amateur auto-only positioning, this MV1 was “rode hard and put away wet”. It’s one of the
I believe this to be an A-II model, first introduced in 1954. The Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) had gained popularity
I have to admit it was a particularly stubborn streak in me that lead to buying and using this meter.
Produced in Communist East Germany by a company sometimes known as Practica, this is a clunky beast of a camera.
These were churned out by the hundreds of thousands, especially the cheap and cheerful version I have here.
This was quite a find, body and lens serial numbers match to the original documentation from Pentax!
The camera that launched a million hobbies. If you studied photography in School from the mid ’70s onwards, you probably