G'day all
I knew these things existed - there's a photo of a similar one on
Boz's site - but I'd never seen one "in the flesh" until the last
camera market in Sydney.
So I just had to have it :-)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP1108-peso.html
It's of absolutely no practical use but it's interesting, just the
same. It's based on the ME but has no focusing screen and a has spot
meter built into the top of the pentaprism. The apparently missing
right had strap connector isn't. That's the way it came from the
factory.
This one is the original half-frame version - the one on Boz's site is
the later full frame version (MF-1). There was also a similar one
based on the MX (see Dario's Asahi Optical Historical Club).
A couple of questions..
Was this the only half frame camera Pentax produced?
Does anyone know exactly how it was used? All that crops up in
internet searches is that it was used "for medical purposes" - some
say optometry; some say endoscopy.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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