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Subject: [Leica] Pentax 645
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:17:01 -0400
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> Alastair, Pentax is Japanese and it was the first SLR I bought when I got
> into photography in a serious way in 1985. It was called Super Program in
> the US (where I lived at the time) or Super A elsewhere. I later moved up
> to a Pentax LX, a wonderful piece of kit, built like a tank but from
> memory not nearly as big or heavy as today's pro DSLRs. I only sold in
> Brussels in the late 1990s, to partly finance the newly discovered Leica M
> system I was getting into at the time.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
I now remember Asahi Pentax as well. When I first got an SLR it was
"spotmatic" but I fell for the Minolta SRT 101 with its f1.2 55mm lens:
looked really "sexy" in the ad. Ended up with the f1.4, but loved the 101
Cheers
Alastair
Replies:
Reply from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Pentax 645)
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Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Pentax 645)
Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Pentax 645)
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Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Pentax 645)