Honestly I see the P30t has a very good cheap learning camera. Even now it
is not that bad. It can work in any mode except TV. The absence of TTL is a
non issue when learning IMO, if you learn photography you need to learn
flash too, don't you?
Moreover it has a DOF preview (and no the Z1 has just
The first roll of film I ran seemed to have set the wrong ASA, oddly
enough it came out exposed fine (probably because it was print film).
Now I'm careful when I put the film in to meter something with no
film (default ASA 100) and make sure that it changes by the right
number of stops for whatev
: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendt: 12. august 2004 15:19
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Emne: Re: What's up with the P30t?
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Jolly"
Subject: Re: What's up with the P30t?
>
> My take: it's a cheap "consumer" SLR
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Jolly"
Subject: Re: What's up with the P30t?
>
> My take: it's a cheap "consumer" SLR with few non-essential
features;
> Pentax sold a whole bunch of them back in the late eighties and now
> there's a glut.
The P3/P30 cameras were the low end bodys in the P series, (The high end
body being the P5/P50), as such they were a bit of a
disappointment to most Pentax aficionados. They have more plastic in
them than the previous M series and don't really have better features
than the A series cameras. The
Actually the whole P series have pretty low resale value, mainly due to
their limited features (even the top model P50). IMHO the good old ME Super
was a better camera. However, they are great built quality wise, but many of
them have faulty aperture resistors (since then they have moved back to
Andrew asked:
> I've been extremely pleased with my P30t, but from what I can see it
> didn't really hold its value very well - only a few for sale on eBay
> at lower prices, and they are the cheapest Pentax body on KEH.
>
> Were they overshadowed by the earlier Super/Program series? Was the
> bu
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