Pentaxians... Any out there?

The bokeh with the Pentax 35mm f3.5 Super Takumar is soooooooooo smoooooooth. I love it.

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It is hard to get into 'Brokeh' with the Super Takumar F3.5 28mm lens, but I certainly agree with you about it's quality. I have one on my Spotmatic now which is loaded with Tmax400.

This is a copy film using a long tone developer, 1970:

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Doug said:
Outside? 😉 Akiva, I believe we both have new Pentaxes to enjoy! I got a K-3 in May...

Regarding the sweet little MX model, I found a chrome one (incl. 50mm f/1.7) for $56 from eBay that was in good working order except the seller did note that the light meter wasn't working, though he'd not put in fresh batteries to check.

It did indeed look and work fine, but when my local repair guy looked into it to see what was up with the meter, he found the whole inside of the bottom cover was corroded including the circuit board and the bottom of the lens mount. He opined it had sat with salt water pooled in the base for some time. Replacing some parts, he got it back up and running. Satisfying to pull one back from the edge!
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Well yes I joined the Pentax club as of recent.
 
Hard bitten by the Pentax bug!

Hard bitten by the Pentax bug!

Maiku said:
The bokeh with the Pentax 35mm f3.5 Super Takumar is soooooooooo smoooooooth. I love it.
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I just picked up one of these in Pentax Forums Marketplace.
I'll use it on my recently acquired SP1000 when it returns from being CLA'ed by Eric Hendrickson.

I'm also waiting for the K-mount equivalent SMC Pentax 35/3.5 I bought in APUG classifieds.

Chris
 
*raises hand*

two LX here. Moved from Olympus OM to LX due to me liking the Pentax body much more. But the Olympus lenses are just so jewelery like, whereas the Pentaxes are more solid, similar to Nikons of that time.

I may have to move to SMC-M lenses altogether 🙂
 
The Pentax LX is a great camera, and durable... My wife started documenting local theatre productions from scene-building to final performance, years ago... as I recall starting with a Pentax ME Super. She is very hard on her gear, and soon the camera showed the battering. IIRC after 2 years she spilled Coca-Cola on it, killing the electrics. We realized she needed something tougher, and weather-sealed against Coke! Thus the first LX, then joined by a Ricoh XR-S as a second body. The Ricoh was dead after 4 years, resulting in a second LX. One LX was sent off to Pentax for repair 5 years later and was lost by the Post Office. So a third LX joined the remaining one for another 9 years of abuse. Then she switched to a digital camera, and the LXes were retired in rough shape but still working fine... except the older one suffered the sticky mirror problem and so needed new mirror-bumper foam.

I had the better of the two CLA'd by Eric Hendrickson and found a clean FA-2 prism finder to replace the dented-up FA-1. Better looking without the hot shoe! 🙂
 
I have an MX since the mid 80's and a 645n for about 5 months. Pentax has always made some remarkable cameras. I still us my MX and it works like new. I had it checked and adjusted once in the whole time I've owned it and that was just about two years ago. Here is a shot with the MX and the 85 1.4 FA* (my favorite portrait lens). I used to have a PZ1 that I bought it for but it worked on the MX too.

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I just picked up an SMC Pentax-M 75-150/4 lens from a fellow Pentax Forums member.
I had another one but my wife (a Pentaxian before me!) borrowed it and will not give it back.
This lens is good enough to be one of only two zooms I own.

Chris
 
ChrisPlatt said:
I just picked up an SMC Pentax-M 75-150/4 lens from a fellow Pentax Forums member.
I had another one but my wife (a Pentaxian before me!) borrowed it and will not give it back.
This lens is good enough to be one of only two zooms I own.

Chris
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I expect you'll enjoy that lens, Chris! I got one of those for my wife's theatre photography, and I believe it was her most-used lens for rehearsals and actor portraits. A year or so after she shifted to a digital Nikon, I went through her old camera bag to see what was usable or needing service, and that 75-150mm lens was not there. Unfortunately, we've never found it, a puzzle.

Another she used a lot was the 40-80mm zoom. When I sent that off to Eric Hendrickson for service, he found the zoom guiderails were broken - with no parts available.
 
The LX is a wonderful camera. It happened so that I was at this camera auction in Stockholm: http://www.lpfoto.se, having decided to buy a Nikon F3 to replace my former, deceased, SLR (Rolleiflex SL35 w/ Zeiss glass), and just by chance I took a close loook at a LX bundle. The F3 was subito forgotten and now I have 2 of these LX beauties and a bunch of smc lenses from 28-200. Hard to imagine a better 35mm film SLR, but my experience is of course quite limited. I was given a F2 last month so let us see if things change when I put that one to work...
Next purchase will undoubtedly be the 6x7 MLU or 67, as simple as possible.
Meanwhile, here some Stockholm shots:

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and the last one

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question for Pentaxians: anyone know good resource for matching serial numbers and manufacturing years of Asahi/Pentax lenses?

there are plenty of lists for Leicas, Nikons etc. but could not find good one for Pentax 🙁
 
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