On 9/6/2010 6:48 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, P. J. Alling<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not the MV. It was black plastic. I don't think there was even a Chrome
version produced. I'd check Boz's page but I'm feeling too lazy.
I had one for a while.
I think you're right. Only available in black, and a very plasticky
plastic it was, too. Obviously a budget camera. Aperture priority
only with no shutter speed indication in the viewfinder or anywhere
else. IIRC an LED in the viewfinder turned red under 1/60th or 1/30th
and above 1/1000th (or something like that). So if you really wanted
to know the shutter speed you had to click the aperture to where the
LED turned red then back-click, counting stops to figure the shutter
speed.
Not as big a PIA as you might think, but then I rarely cared ~that
much~ what the shutter speed was, and if I did, I'd not bring that
camera.
I got it on eBay for around $15, but considered it little more than a
rear lens cap for the M 2.0 50mm lens on it - not because I had any
illusions that was a good lens (capable to be sure, but not great) but
because I'd recently bought an MX from Wheatfield and didn't have a
k-mount lens to use (having only Spotmatics up to that point).
I was happy enough for the $15 lens, but surprisingly I used the body
more than I thought I would, as a back-up for the MX and for
situations where I didn't want to do harm to the MX. It was great for
throwing in the glove compartment or trunk and not worrying about.
cheers,
frank
Where did you find a bike with a glove compartment and a trunk?
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