Shel, I've shot some film with almost every Pentax camera - K, M, LX, A, P, SFX thru the Pz-1p, plus the Spotmatic and ES/ESII. I like the M's better than the K's because of their size, but the KX and K2 are special. In the A series, the Super Program is the standout, way ahead of the Program Plus or A3000. With the P series, the P5 is interesting and often overlooked. The SF's are big and clunky, but the PZ-1/1p is big and WOW!
I've shot a fair bit of film with the ME, Super Program, PZ-1, and LX, plus some with the PZ-1p and MZ-S. I can still pick up any of the 1st four cameras and feel perfectly at home, just let me hear the shutter click once or twice. Overall, my favorite has to be the LX. It does everything effortlessly and predictably. I go back to the PZ-1p or PZ-1 for things. I'm still trying to get familiar with the MZ-S and ist Ds. Going back and shooting with an H3 and Spotmatic is very enlightening. Those cameras and lenses are really small. The ME and MX are similar in size and feel. The Limited lenses carry this tradition with a similar feel and the ist Ds is truely small. Regards, Bob S. On 7/5/05, pancho hasselbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shel, > > I've used LX, SuperA, KX, MZ-S widely (and own one of each) and have > held ME super and MX in my hands. > > My favourite is the LX, which although it is a wild beast with it's > heavy shaking shutter has everything I want and that at easiest use. > Moreso, it works without batteries when needed. > > The MZ-S in quite nice for some reasons, e.g. autofocus which the LX > does not offer. Focus confirmation is nice sometimes, some of my lenses > seem to be slightly off focus on the focussing screen, especially A* > 1.4/85. But it is not self explaining, especially whe it comes to > setting the special functions. > > KX is very nice because it has't but the basic features I expect, > including meter, self timer DOF preview and MLU. I like using it for > "slow work" using a light meter. > > SuperA is nice, small and automatic when needed, up to TTL flash. > > pancho > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Hi Gang ... > > > > ... what's your favorite Pentax - even if it's one that you don't use or > > use very much. > > > > Shel > > >
