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Vivitar Series 1 lenses are nice...I have the 35-85mm and 70-210 in Pentax K mount and the 135mm 2.3 in Nikon mount...
I would have to say that none of the Pentax stuff I own will ever be used again since I've been shooting Nikon...also found a Minolta SRT 102 that I gave to my son (garage sale item) years ago, never even shot one roll through it...
Time to hit the classifieds...
 
oftheherd said:
Screw mount and M42 mount in SLRs is the same thing. The K mount is what Pentax called its bayonet mount when they went to that. As I recall their first bayonet mount was the K-1000. It went on to become its own standard. That is, many camera manufacturers licensed it and used it on their cameras. Vivitar did, and I think Cosina as well as others. I don't recall all the others who used it.
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You can include at least Ricoh, which was possily the biggest booster of the K mount, outside Pentax itself, with its SLR line at the time (remember the solar-paneled KR they made?). And it has the distinction of being only the second pre-autofocus SLR lens mount to make it more-or-less intact into the digital era (Nikon's F mount being the other one, though a few Leicaphiles might browbeat me into including the Leicaflex mount as well, even though the digital connection there is through a retrofitted back, as opposed to a new, digital-only body).


- Barrett
 
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oftheherd said:
Anyway, the M42 was the original Pentax SLR mount as far as I know. I am still waiting for someone to remind who was the first with the M42 mount. I want to say it was Praktica (sp) but I am not sure.
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You're right, it was Practica, and Pentax adopted it as a more universal and already established mount.

oftheherd said:
...Screw mount and M42 mount in SLRs is the same thing. The K mount is what Pentax called its bayonet mount when they went to that. As I recall their first bayonet mount was the K-1000. ...
I don't recall that the M42 mount was patented, nor do I remember who first brought it out. I don't think it was Pentax
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The first Pentax K-bayonet mount cameras (1975) were the K2, KX, and KM. The top-of-the-line K2 DMD and stripped price-leader K1000 came along the next year. ( http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/index.html )

The earliest "Pentax" SLR camera, the Asahiflex, used a 37mm thread mount, but this lasted only a couple years until they redesigned the camera, adopted the Pentax name for it, and the Contax/Practica M42 mount (East German, and therefore without patent agreement). This was May 1957 and the camera was also sold by Sears under their "Tower" name.
 
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Doug said:
You're right, it was Practica, and Pentax adopted it as a more universal and already established mount.

The first Pentax K-bayonet mount cameras (1975) were the K2, KX, and KM. The top-of-the-line K2 DMD and stripped price-leader K1000 came along the next year. ( http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/index.html )

The earliest "Pentax" SLR camera, the Asahiflex, used a 37mm thread mount, but this lasted only a couple years until they redesigned the camera, adopted the Pentax name for it, and the Contax/Practica M42 mount (East German, and therefore without patent agreement). This was May 1957 and the camera was also sold by Sears under their "Tower" name.
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Thanks for confirming it was the Practica. I didn't realize the Asaheflex was not M42. I thought it was, at least as sold here in the United States. I almost bought a couple off ebay. Lucky I didn't. Fascinating what one can learn on RFF!

I had also forgotten there were models prior to the K1000. Thanks for correcting me. I was going off my memory of the times. Too many tired old brain cells. 😀

Anyone here use the old Pentax SP? IIRC it was just before the Spotmatic, and without a light meter built in. There were two models of light meter that I know of that fit over the pentaprism as an add on. One was more rounded and I thought didn't look as good. The other seemed to have been designed to "fit" the look of the camera.
 
nikon_sam said:
Shadowfox...Not too sure the MX is a rare camera...just maybe the owners are not too willing to part with them...
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... hence "Rare", no? 😀

my definition of rare is not that it barely exist anymore, it's "not-easily-aquired-via-common-trading-methods"
 
shadowfox said:
... hence "Rare", no? 😀

my definition of rare is not that it barely exist anymore, it's "not-easily-aquired-via-common-trading-methods"
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Well, that makes the Fujicas rare then, doesn't it? 😀
 
shadowfox,

I was using the other form of "Rare"...not too many of them on the open market...
Rare as in ..."you rarely see them anymore these days"...
I read your statement as..."MX's are Rare...they only made five or six of them..."
I never saw them as Rare only because I had two (of the six) they made...then bought another one for my daughter (now I own 3 of the 6) then about 2-3 years ago I put a nice Black Pentax MX w/Winder & 50mm 1.8 out to loan...
A young student needed a manually operated SLR...since then the camera has gone to ??? I don't know where it is...not too worried either...
Since my daughter hasn't used her chrome MX (would prefer a digital) I have reclaimed the MX...
It's been years since I've really used one of these cameras...Maybe I should try it again...
 
nikon_sam said:
Since my daughter hasn't used her chrome MX (would prefer a digital) I have reclaimed the MX...
It's been years since I've really used one of these cameras...Maybe I should try it again...
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Indeed you should! According to your rareness figures, it's fully 1/6 of the world supply... I had a chrome one resurrected from the dead (electronics + water) and really enjoy it. And there's a black one on its way to me from Nova Scotia. Given the rarity, that might be the very same one you lost track of... 😀
 
SteveM(PA) said:
I'm missing the drive cover as you can see, but unless somebody has an extra, I'll just put some tape over it.
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crap...I have one on the way from Joe...I haven't covered up the opening...just realized that my film is probably ruined...? 😕 :bang:
 
I'd bet your film is fine, Steve. There should be seals in there, and the cover is for appearance and keeping crud out of the coupling. These covers get lost, or forgotten in their storage recess on the top of the drive housing (maybe not all drives have these storage spots), and yet the cameras are used without them.
 
Keith said:
Henry ... four OM-1's ????? 😱
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Good thing you haven't decided to collect Olympus cameras! 😀

Nice stable for sure. Wish I had the equivalent in a particular brand I am fond of.
 
shadowfox said:
... (where's that darn checkbox that hides my signature...??)
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It's below the editing box in the full editor mode, in a box called Additional Options. It's not available in Quick Reply mode, but you can get to it by clicking the Go Advanced button.
 
shadowfox said:
Those qualifies as an OBSESSION 😀

(where's that darn checkbox that hides my signature...??)
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I know, I'm taking medication for it lol...you should pay attention to your "Oly rangefinder" issue my man..... wait until you see my Zuiko collection 😀
 
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