Well I'm now the proud owner of one second-hand Pentax digital spot meter.
Quite a nice little piece of equipment :)
The shop I got it from had a very nice Pentax 67 (latest model before the 67II)
recently arrive on the shelf. If it were a little (actually a lot) cheaper I would
have bought it as its in really good condition. They had an older, more "used"
body selling at a lower price, with a waist level finder and a very bright
focussing screen with the grid-lines on it. I might have bought that if they'd
had a lens to go with it :)
One thing I found strange: the newer body had a 90mm f/2.8 leaf shutter lens
on it. Seems strange to put only 5 aperture blades into what's essentially an
outdoor portrait lens.
Since I'm intending to buy a 67 at some stage (I've decided that I don't need
the extra features of the 67II): how do you activate the mirror lockup? I don't
know how to cock the shutter without film in the camera so I couldn't try the
"mystery switch" on the left of the lens mount, which I thought might be the
MLU control.
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec)
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
"Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up,
while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield
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