ES II

Has anyone had experience of this camera?

What do people think of it, does any one know the history of it and whether it suffers from any reliability issues in old age?

It looks great that is for sure

Regards,
Simon

The ES II is a lovely camera, but unfortunately is not particularly reliable. It was an early electronic SLR and seems to have been released before many electronic issues had been solved.

Nonetheless, if I found one at a low price I would buy it!

Thanks John,

I got one as part of a larger set but couldn't find much info about it online. It has great styling and has the 'look' and 'feel' of a fantastic camera IMHO - shame about the reliability issues with it but if it was a 'transitional' camera model for Pentax then I am not surprised they made a few 'mistakes' with it.

I will definitely be running a roll of film through it (it might actually be wise to check the exposures against my *istD first) and use some SMC Takumars with it.

Regards
Simon