Hi, I just got a very nicely looking Pentax SP1000 with supposedly nonfunct. meter for a nice sum (at least here, comparing Spotmatic prices) of ~33$/40E ... What a beauty! I now wish all my cameras had hot-shoe-less prisms...
for few family pictures, see www.volny.cz/fotof/tech/family The SP1000 sports a mounted 1.8/80 Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar, really superb glass, the K2DMD sports a 2.8/180 Olympia Sonnar, the LX a SMC F 1.4/50 ... It's also a picture of Pentax-Zeiss connection (well, if you count Zeiss Jena into the CZ), these two companies cooperated a lot in the 70s, resulting in (according to some) K mount and several lens designs made together, as well as T*/SMC (it was perhaps a sign of what later came with Zeiss-Kyocera). Which one came first depends on which "expert" you ask (meaning which side he is on), but damn - I don't give a dime who was first. The connection is nice enough! Now I can use all my CZJ M42 glass without any stupid ugly adapters! Good light, Frantisek Vlcek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
