I'm Morrighan aka Phantom Queen. I am a complete newbie to film camera usage and I thought I'd check you folks out because I just lucked out and bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic at Goodwill for like $20 and after doing some research I do think that deal was a good one. I'm not sure which version it is exactly as I can only see so far that it is not the Spotmatic 2. Serial on it is #2572117 and it's got the 1:14/50 Super Takumar lens. It does seem clear of any major problems. No mold on the lens that I can tell and the shutter works and all...I won't know for sure until I get another battery into it, but I have a feeling I did pretty good with this one.
I have two other cameras too. A Yashica Electro GS, and a Ricoh TLS. Both were gifts. I haven't used them much mainly because of film costs. I tend to use my digital Fuji s7000 more, but I do want to get more into film too. I"m starting classes for film as soon as I can get the grant set up. Until then I am going to read the manuals and really learn the 3 cameras to see which of them is going to be my "first" camera and the one I will use for class. I do like the fact that I can use the Lenses for the Ricoh and Pentax interchangably. I have a 135MM zoom and a bunch of filters as well, but no wide angle as yet. Any suggestions as to anything else lens-wise I should be looking out for? Did I do as good in getting this one as I think I did? :)
