Happy shooting. :-)
What a find! Congratulations!
I still have my old Spotmatic, which I bought in the Danang PX in 1966 for $115. I carried a Nikonos most of the time in RVN but it got KIA. The Pentax survived and still takes a great picture.
I had a Spotmatic F. I miss it dearly. Although when the original Nikon D1s came out, I admit I forgot about it for a while ;)
I still have my Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, purchased in 1970 at Robinson Barracks PX in Stuttgart, Germany.
Have the good f1.4 50mm Super Takumar lens, too. Plus cheaper wide angle, and telephoto accessory lenses.
Rarely use it, but it still works; batteries a little tough to find. But they last a long time.
Not worth much money, in excellent condition.
One of the finest cameras, ever made, I understand.
And since these are air-activated batteries they'll go dead within a month even with the meter turned off. So I usually rely on an old hand-held light meter or just bracket my exposures on the rare occasions I use the camera. Digital is so much more convenient--not to mention economical--it's no wonder people donate their film cameras to charities. I only wish the garden-variety digicams had the quality lenses Pentax and their competition made in the '60s and '70s.
I still have my small Petri 34mm camera. They went out of business many years ago.
The K-1000 is a lovely, simple, and rugged SLR. I have only one complaint: it is a “noisy” and perhaps slightly imbalanced camera. When you press the button that shutter/mirror combo is like firing off a gun, and the camera shakes noticeably. A bad thing for slower shutter speeds.
I was always very fond of the Olympus OM series bodies and the Nikon FE body.
I'll have to check with my brother to see if he still has his old Pentax Spotmatic camera--a real collector's item, in my humble opinion!