A Pentax SV with Super-Takumar 55/1.8, purchased for me in Singapore in 1968
by a friend who was on the way home to the UK from St. Helena, where I then
lived. I added a Wallace Heaton 2x TC in the same year, then the square
clip-on meter in 1969 in Cape Town, and a Wallace Heaton 35/3.5 preset in
1971 ( I was too poor for Pentax stuff by then!)
Served me exceptionally well until it was all stolen in 1975.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: Sid Barras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:32 PM
To: Pentax discussion list Pentax discussion
Subject: A new poll: Your first pentax?
The "favorite" pentax poll generated lots of good stuff. Got me to
thinking about my first pentax.
Mine was a P 30t, but came as a gift, so I don't know if it counts.
The first one of my own choosing was a spotmatic, a real "user" off
ebay, and it came with a 20 pound sack full of lenses-- the 28(3.5),
50(1.4), 105(2.8), 135(3.5) and 200(4)super taks. The fifty was a
"user" too, but the others were near mint, with cases. Since then,
I've been a fan (as described by Bob Blakely) of pentax equipment.
I've owned nearly every body, and as many lenses as a poor amateur
can afford.
Sid B in cajunland.
