I use my LX fairly regularly nd love it. I was using it recently and
thought that that Pentax should come out with a D-LX DSLR body with the
real-time metering and other cool features of the LX bundled into a
state of the art DSLR. Maybe they will.
You never know, and you may be lucky, but you may need to have the
camera services. In my case the seals and bumpers were good but the
real time metering was not working. I had it repaired by Pentax many
yeas ago and it still works - I actually did some very long exposure
shots last summer as was very happy to see it still functioning. I use
the camera pretty regularly for day to day B&W film shots and it is
still working great - so in my case while I had to get if CLA'd it is
still working great.
The LX was made for a long period of time and Pentax introduced
incremental improvements, so older LX's lack some features of newer
bodies. IIRC, the SO range on some older bodies topped out at 1600, but
later was upped to 3200. On later bodies metering is activated by
depressing the release button for the ISO control wheel in addition to
half depressing the shutter button. My LX did not have this function.
but Pentax added it when they fixed it up. I also think there was a
minor difference in the dot pattern on the shutter blades for metering
between versions.
The LX is truly a fabulous body for it's vintage. The off the film
metering for long exposures is great for low light work. I think that
only Olympus had a similar feature in one of their bodies.
Good luck!
Mark
On 3/7/2013 10:14 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
I tripped across a cosmetically gorgeous LX body (FA finder) yesterday
and it seemed to be priced right, so I impulsively purchased it (long
distance). *After* doing so, I started doing a little research on it.
: )
It appears that I may have taken a bit of a gamble, since it looks
like a lot can go wrong with these things and a full CLA from Eric
(pentaxs.com) is going to run $160-200 (!). It won't arrive until next
Tuesday, so I have a lot of time to fret.
: \
I believe that I bought it reasonably enough that even if I did
nothing to it I could turn around and sell it for at least what I gave
for it, as it sits, so I don't think I have anything big to worry
about.
I'm hopeful that I can put in a mirror bumper pad and seals in the
film back (myself) and be good to go, but that remains to be seen. I
was hoping that those of you with an LX (or experience with them)
might tell me what sort of issues you had with them (if any) and your
impression of where the LX stands in the Pentax film body family.
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