Show us your SLR ..... WHAT?

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Ronnies, congratulations on the MX! Tough little suckers, and one of the best and biggest viewfinders ever put on a SLR. I've got a mess of 'em!
Now go find yourself the 43mm limited edition. On the MX body, it's pure bliss!
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Ronnies, congratulations on the MX! Tough little suckers, and one of the best and biggest viewfinders ever put on a SLR. I've got a mess of 'em!
Now go find yourself the 43mm limited edition. On the MX body, it's pure bliss!
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The 43 is fantastic, and for an AF lens it has great manual focus feel.
 
Yes, Olympus did it first, and we are all in their debt for making the 35mm SLR a compact, portable, discreet tool. And I will stick my neck out and assert that their lenses generally outshine those from Pentax. But, having owned OM-1 and OM-2 cameras back in the day, I found that I could never get comfortable with the shutter ring setup. Constant fumbling! The MX was the response from Pentax, and, for me, perfection in an SLR. Both quite wonderful cameras, to be sure, and anyone who has either (or both!) should count themselves fortunate.
 
While purists are probably right about the refinement of the MX, I'm perfectly happy with my ME Super. And it is pretty darned inexpensive.
 
Well, it could be argued that the ME Super is a refinement of the MX: the availability of auto exposure is, after all, a refinement over the manual-only MX. I'm just an old grump who distrusts 40 year old electronics. I know that, with proper care, my mechanical cameras will be around as long as I will. Given that no real 35 film cameras (aside from Leicas) are currently being made, that's comforting; on the other hand, if you want or need automation, go for it; they're all tools and made to be used! And just to contradict myself, I just bought a Minolta CLE, in the full knowledge that it will almost certainly have "issues" sooner rather than later. The unique feature set outweighed my concerns over longevity.
We analog shooters are between a rock and a hard place, in many respects...
 
I shoot with B&W film most of the time, so all manual with a meter for backup works just fine for me. I just obtained a very nice condition K1000, very close in size and weight to a couple of Mamiya DTL bodies I had but with a K-mount, which means I can share lenses with my digital KP.
 
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