On Tuesday 04 January 2005 00:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
The camera works without batteries; the meter probably needs a PX625 battery...but since those are now outlawed, you'll have to go for whatever the replacement is. (I remember it's made by Wein). As to whether or not the deal was good, I'll quote Tom, from "Lock, Stock, & 2 Smoking Barrels": " What school of finance did you come from Nick? "It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the Sale of the f***ing Century!" =-Luigi
