Just serviced

Last January when I was last in the US I sent four cameras, two motordrives and a dial data back to Eric Hendrickson for some TLC. They arrived back at a friend's in Ohio in February and have been waiting for my next trip to the US to collect them. I was finally reunited with them last week. Here is a smap shot of of them taken in my hotel room with some lenses I had with me (Super A with a A50/1.4, black MX with an M40/2.8 pancake, silver MX with a K28/3.5 shift and a early black Spotmatic with a Super Takumar 55mm f/2). The rest of the unboxing sequence is on my ipernity account for those that like that sort of thing. I have already put two rolls of Ektar 100 through the Super A and have some APX100 in the black MX.



Unboxing (9) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

Cheers, Kris.

Very nice. I have a K2 waiting in Edinburgh to be sent for repair/service somewhere.

How do you find the APX 100? I haven't tried it yet but the Flickr APX group is impressive.

A lovely line-up indeed Kris, featuring two of my favourite Pentaxes of all time (the Spotmatic and MX). Of course, the K10D remains my very favourite...

Hi Andrew. The 'silver' MX I've had a while but it developed a fault which was luckily just needing some lubrication. The black MX I got as part of a large job lot a while back but I had never used it because it was in need of a service. The bumper foam was hanging off and the light seals were just goo. I'm very pleased to have the two MXs now as I can have colour film in one and BW in the other. I've never used an original Spottie so that is a treat to come. Apparently it is one of the early models. I think I bought the Super A probably five or six years ago but again never used it as it needed a service although cosmetically looked great. Eric has done a superb job with them!

Best wishes, Kris.

Great collection of "heavy metall"! The black Spotmatic looks magnificent, I have not seen all many black versions of the original Spotmatic.

I have recently started using my KX, which was sevices by Harrow Technical some time ago. I must say I prefer the KX to my MX, due to the slightly larger body and also the light meter design in the viewfinder.

Bjørn

What a nice picture of these 'oldies'! Wish I had some time to buy and try some of them. Have fun with them.

Lovely set there Kris.

I've heard of Eric Hendrickson and his services. I understand his work is well thought of but does it gets too expensive to use him by post?

Hi Bob,

for various reasons I go to the states a few times a year. I saved on the postage by taking these with me at New Year and posting them to him then, and collecting them from a friend in Ohio on my next trip.

A single camera seems to be not too bad -- he revamped my ESII nicely and posted it back to the UK -- but I was guessing four cameras and a couple of motordrives might be a bit much!

Best wishes, Kris.

Love the 'heavy metal' description!