Symptoms...

Of spending too much time in the forums, of LBA.


How did I get so many bodies? I really just want one film body... (the third MX from foreground).

I suffer from the "oh look, it's a .... That was the first camera where Pentax.... Oh, it's only .... " Result? S1a, SPII, ES, MX, ME Super (x 4), ME-F, LX, Program A (x2), Super A. I think that it is (excluding the two C@@@@n EOS's which get used on site and anything digital). I don't have any film bodies post the "A" series, largely because I only have one autofocus full frame lens. Mind you, that is the 43mm Ltd...

I find the bodies after the A series bland or ugly.
Now that I have the chance to play with dark room, I want to shoot some film, but for that the MX is fine. By fine I mean a gorgeous piece of kit, small, sturdy and handy. The only other bodies I consider keeping would be spotmatics (cuz they are beautifull) and the LX.

Limiteds... Someday I'll get one (them ).

I have (in rough order of acquisition)

Pentax MZ-7
Ricoh KR-5 Super II
Pentax ME-F
Pentax Auto 110
Pentax SFX (x2)
Pentax Z-50p
Pentax K1000
Pentax SF7

I have also owned and subsequently sold a second MZ-7, an MZ-50 and 2x ME-Supers. I no longer sell film bodies since anything less than an MX/LX/Z1-p/MZ-S is worthless and they come in handy when I want to take a camera out but don't want to risk a DSLR. The SFX is currently my go-to camera for theme parks and suchlike, ugly as sin but tough enough that you could club a mugger over the head with it and go right on shooting.

I have a similar problem...

ME Super
MG
MV1 (two - one black, one chrome, the latter was bought on Friday and is en route)
K1000
P30
P30T
MZ50 (two)
SF7

And I'd still like an ME F and MX!

I too avoid the newer AF bodies unless they include a lens I'm after, which is how I came to have two MZ50s and an SF7.

I thought that's too many bodies....but then I looked at my Pentax shelves and decided that perhaps I shouldn't say anything at all.

So this is me being silent on the subject.....

I can never quite pick just one. The K1000 was my first SLR, the MG is staying as it shares my initials. I always wanted an ME Super and the MV1 came to me looking rough and not guaranteed to work. After a good clean it turns out to be a reasonable example that works.

M series bodies don't take up much space, and I'm planning to rotate them using a different one with each roll of film. The ME F is on the wish list due to being the first AF SLR, the MX because they seem to be hugely popular and I'd like to see what all the fuss is about!

And the wife's getting at me about cameras,

Nice DOF on the photo,

Jack.

Thank god I am not so bad (I hope.....)

In order

Praktica MTL-5B
Pentax MZ-5n
Pentax MZ-50


However if you include digital as well

Pentax *istDS
Pentax K10D
Pentax K20D

Not too bad.



Hang on, I was given these working cameras too......

Zenit SLR
Rolleiflex F3.5
Bronica ETRS

Looks like I have the same problem too.
(I have not included the various 35mm compacts, APS, Digital compact/bridge cameras either....)

I wondered where I was in all this and listed them. Oh dear...

Pentax S1a
Pentax SPII
Pentax ES
Pentax ME
Pentax MV
Pentax MV1
Pentax MG
Pentax MX
4 x Pentax ME Super
Pentax ME-F
2 x Pentax Super A
Pentax Program A
Pentax LX
Pentax K10D
Pentax K20D

Horseman LE 5x4 view camera.

plus 3 x Canon cameras, some compacts and a TLR.

K.

I would like to say thanks to all, you've set my mind at rest, I thought that I was abnormal with six film bodies.

I have decided that I only want to keep the K1000 and ME Super bodies.

Greg