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2 posted on
08/14/2011 11:01:48 PM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Pentax made some great stuff back in the day. If I recall, those older ones were able to operate even without a battery. That one looks great for a thrift shop find. I bet you got it for cheap.
5 posted on
08/14/2011 11:09:49 PM PDT by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
"This way to the egress"
Or something like that... ;) Great pix. PT would be proud to use them.
/johnny
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I still have an old Pentax Spotmatic somewhere and a nice Takumar 400 mm zoom lens. Both bought in 1969. The following picture, however, was taken this past spring with a Canon 7D at 400 mm. The image is cropped.
![](http://i55.tinypic.com/e80co0.jpg")
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I had a pentax zx-m i think it was.
I took everything with two lenses, one 24mm and one 50mm.
They were so small i could put the unused one in my pocket.
What great pics it took.
10 posted on
08/14/2011 11:19:13 PM PDT by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
11 posted on
08/14/2011 11:31:08 PM PDT by
Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Is your scanner a flatbed, or one of those printer/scanner/fax machines? How did you get the resolution? I'm curious. Thanks.
16 posted on
08/14/2011 11:44:07 PM PDT by
Othniel
(There is no god named Allah, and Mohammed is its false prophet.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I love thrift shops...:O)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
What a find! Great pictures, too!
24 posted on
08/15/2011 1:38:35 AM PDT by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
You have two gifts: taking beautiful pictures and finding great cameras at thrift stores!! Your pictures always seem so clear! Great job!!
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Those pics are perfect examples of why I still have my Pentax Spotmatic II and my Asahi (Pentax) Lenses
(1). That was the first SLR I owned. I 'could have' traded it in when I stepped up to my Nikon FE but I just couldn't part with it. And yes, the Pentax was built like a tank.
Finding a non Mercury Battery was a problem for a 'few' years, but no longer. It's up and in working order again.
(1) Plus with the M42 Universal Mount, 'off brand', but good lenses like Vivatar where affordable for a young whippersnapper :-)
30 posted on
08/15/2011 5:54:31 AM PDT by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I have a Canon Elan IIE SLR film camera that I was thinking of Ebay-ing. Got replaced with a digital this year and the old EOS lens works great on both the film and the digital versions.
But maybe I’ll keep the film SLR. It did take great pictures and I had a nifty AA battery pack attachment which gave it good heft and a very comfortable hand hold, especially when taking vertical views.
It was hard to take a bad picture with that rig. Haven’t tested the new one enough to compare it with the old.
31 posted on
08/15/2011 6:00:07 AM PDT by
randita
(Obama - chains you can bereave in.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I had a Pentex with the screw mount and my daughter dropped it in the surf across from Eureka. I still have the K2 replacement with several lenses and filters but never use it. My hobby is collecting old photo post cards of places in Humboldt County Ca...
35 posted on
08/15/2011 6:53:14 AM PDT by
tubebender
(The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Bah...I could do better if I wanted to.
I just don't want to.
;)
39 posted on
08/15/2011 7:33:55 PM PDT by
Celtic Cross
(The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
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