Where to get a Pentax K rangefinder?

Appropriate brand, though, especially for an eBay'er fond of "Makinon" it up as he goes along...


- Barrett
 
I remember Leitz had this really long lens which you mounted on a tripod and focused with a ground glass, before attaching your camera body to it.

Clarence
 
Mango, since you're there and not here I can't introduce you to a rangefinder my father once worked on. It's a very acurate automatic rangefinder capable of tracking a moving target, it realy improved the system it was used with. A Leopard II tank :)
 
Rumor has it that the entire production run of Pentax K rangefinders was specially ordered and delivered to the Sultan of Brunei. He uses them as paperweights and doorstops in his many palaces. I wonder if his special edition Leica order met a better fate?
 
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In a perhaps not totally unrelated matter, I am having some real
operational "issues" using a Jupiter 12 lens on my Pentax K1000.

Any suggestions? ;)

"Excelsior, you fathead!"
-Chris-
 
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There's something fishy about that. I looked all over that ebay listing and couldn't find anything about "I don't know anything about cameras but ... "
 
Oldprof said:
Rumor has it that the entire production run of Pentax K rangefinders was specially ordered and delivered to the Sultan of Brunei. He uses them as paperweights and doorstops in his many palaces. I wonder if his special edition Leica order met a better fate?
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You mean the 24K gold Leica R4 and Summicron lens sets? I can't imagine how inconveniently heavy that setup would be. ... Pendulum counterweights?
 
I would hold off until you confirm if it's compatable with the new digital M.

Bob
 
rpsawin said:
I would hold off until you confirm if it's compatable with the new digital M.

Bob
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It's compatible with this adapter:

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R.J.
 
When you find that Pentax Rangefinder body, let me know, as I've a NIB Pentax SMC 50/1.7 Rangefinder lens yearning for release.

Ted
 
Special K Not A Joke!

Special K Not A Joke!

There was a Pentax K RF,and Pentax has gone to grat lengths to suppress any memory of-it was released simultaneously with the Chrysler series of "K" cars,
financed by your tax dollars and trumpeted by Lee Iocaca himself-and they were just as successful!

Mikey GaGa
 
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