On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I dug out an old Asahi Pentax SV brochure, might somebody be interested in
> it? I guess AOHC must have all the brochures scanned by now, but if not
> this one, is here somebody interested for a scan, or somebody with
> Spotmatic webpage?
Eek! No one who likes those ugly Spotmatics with the fat mirror boxes
deserves a brochure of a gorgeous camera like the SV! :) I'd love to
have it if you don't want it, and would gladly cover postage and a bit
more if you want. I'm going to be putting up a web page for PSP's
(pre-Spotmatic cameras) eventually, so that will come in handy then. If
anyone wants to make a scan of it in the meantime, I don't have a problem
with that. I've got about 7 PSP's myself, including an SV that I got from
Fred, so I'd love to have it. :)
> It's actually quite old, but very interesting. As a prominent feature of
> the camera (lens) is in bold type stressed the "action of this black
> anodised focusing ring is silky. It's like a hot knife cutting through
> butter". That's already starting with Pentax "philosophy" :) And the SV
> doesn't have that ugly self-timer lever on front - it's hidden on top!
It's a great self-timer! And the focusing is so much like butter...
> What's the reliability of SV's shutter? I am still looking for a nice
> old Spotmatic to use with my Carl Zeiss Jena lenses (2.8/20 & 1.8/80
> CZJ just deserve something better than my broken-meter Praktica with
> its positive but LOUD shutter). What's the synch speed? X? I can't
> find it in the brochure.
The Spotmatics do have a sturdier shutter mechanism, but I've never had
any problems with any of my PSP's. The sync speed is X, which is 1/45.
chris
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