What's your favourite?

Just finished renovating My MX, fantastic camera! I was thinking how it seems to have taken the place of my MES in the camera bag and is going to get a lot of use. How many out there have changed from one model to another, and how often do you use your second choice bodies?

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Cheers, HG

K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.

Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...

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Not that often now, but I still keep a couple of LX's in the bag as back ups to my K10D's

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Kerrowdown... Aka Romantic Highlander.

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand... William Blake.

"Mistress" Pentax-A 15mm F3.5, "Good Lady" Pentax-A 20mm F2.8, "Friendly Lady" Pentax-A 24mm F2.8, "Deviate Lady" Pentax 28mm F3.5 Shift, "Street Lady" Pentax-A 28mm F2.8, "Bohemian Lady" Pentax-A 35mm F2.0, "Retro Lady" SMC Pentax-M 40mm F2.8, "Special Lady" Pentax-A 50mm F1.2, "Femme Fatale" Pentax-A 50mm F2.8 Macro, "Sweetheart" Pentax-A*85mm F1.4, "Lady Luck" Pentax-A*135mm F1.8, "Gorgeous Lady" Pentax-A*200mm F2.8 ED, "Duchess" Pentax-A*300mm F4.0, "HM The Queen" SMC Pentax 500mm F4.5

I still use my MZ5-n, but it feals a little cheap in the hand along side my K10. I sold my Program A, loved that camera though!

I also have an LX and when it comes back form being serviced I am sure to be giving it a go. It's a shame I can't use the DA lenses on it as it only uses the apature stopped right down, still I have enough lenses with an apature ring.

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Bodies: K5IIs, K7, MZ5n, LX, MV
Lenses: DA*16-50, DA18-55WR, DA18-135, DAL35, M50 F2, A50 f1.4, FA50 f1.4, DA*50-135, DA55-300, Tamron 70-300, DFA 100 WR Macro, M135 f3.5, Sigma 120-400 APO DG HSM, Tokina 500 f8.0
Flash: Metz 58, Metz 48
Accessories: BG4, Pentax right angle finder, Pentax mirror adaptor lens, O-ME53 Viewfinder Loupe
Auto 110 System: Auto 110, Winder, 18mm, 24mm, 50mm, 70mm, 20-40mm, AF100P, 1.7x telecon

Of my film cameras I still find the ME Super the one I can work most quickly with, and have the most confidence in*, but that is simply because it was the camera I used for the first ten years or more of photography! When it died I used an MX which I loved, but my current example has the battery drain problem. Mostly, now, I use the LX although it is pretty heavy! I've often thought of trying to pick-up a 40mm pancake lens and using it with one of my ME Supers as my "carry around in my pocket" camera but those lenses still command a pretty good price.

*confidence in my use of it, not the camera itself.

Cheers, Kris.

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Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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I moved from an ME SUper to an LX, after a few years in between using mainly a compact point and shoot (albeit a Nikon 35 Ti). I changed because I could finally afford an LX, my dream camera all my life. My lovely old ME Super is not neglected, though, my wife uses it now.

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Easy DIY fix for that - go to the last paragraph on this page and follow the simple instruction. Hey presto, you have a functioning MX once more!

As for the original question, I'd love to say that I use all my cameras equally but that's not proving to be true. If it's digital then it's the K10D, if it's film then it's the MX. Sometimes the Contax gets a look in when I need something to slip in the pocket but I'm ashamed to say my Leica hasn't seen a film in 2 years and my Rollei has only had one roll since it came back from a service 18 months ago. I've got plenty of cameras but once I find one I like I tend to stick to it pretty exclusively...

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Yup, I saw that the other day when you sent me the link for another topic. Once my MX and I are both on the same side of the Atlantic I'll give it a whirl. I sent it off for repair a couple of years back (before I discovered Harrow Technical) and it came back "unable to obtain parts..."

Thanks for the link, extremely useful.

Best wishes, Kris.

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Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
My website

Some of us lust after a Lieca, then agaian if I had one and didn't use it it would take a trip to any shop that would pay it's worth. Still...

Don't get too jealous; the Leica I was referring to is a Minilux which I keep as my "compact" film camera, the reason it doesn't get used is that I rarely take a compact (I rely on my phone for emergencies) and when I do it tends to be the Contax 'cos it's digital. I wish it was an M6 with the new Noctilux 50/0.95 but that's well out of my financial league.

The Rollei gets more attention simply because it's medium format and so offers me a completely different medium to play with (and it takes nice photos of course!).

Other than that I've got 60+ film bodies and half-a-dozen digicams; with the exception of another Leica (a tatty IIIf with an equally scruffy Summitar 50) none of which are worth more than a couple of quid.

About 50% of them are Olympus Trips, I can't walk past one at a car boot sale without buying it - rarely for more than a pound. I've played with so many now I know them pretty well, so repairs are generally straightforward. They're great for putting on the tables at weddings - they're simple to use (very intuitive for young and old alike) and produce much better pictures than the disposable ones you usually get given.

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I got a *istDL2 3 years ago (I think), but I still enjoy going out with my ME Supers. I only have small hands so they fit quite well as it were, and the viewfinder is beautifully clear and I love the feel and sound of operation-even winding on is enjoyable!

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Pentax *istDL2, MV, two ME Supers (one black, one silver), K1000, Ricoh KR10M, Olymus OM2, Zenit EM, Zorki 4, and a number of different lenses, including a beautiful Sigma 28 mm Mini-Wide II and a Pentax 40 mm pancake.

I started out with a Pentax SP1000 with 55mm f2 lens and worked through ME Super, MX, LX, Super A, skipped a few models till MZ5, MZ3 and then the DSLRs.

My favourite is actually the K10D which is a superb camera that does its job and does it exceptionally well.

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Best regards, John

I like to use different cameras just for the fun of it. Of my film bodies the LX is probably my favourite although I like the lightness of the MX and have nostalgic memories of years of the ME Super. Of digital SLRs I have only had the K10D and as John says, its lovely! On a trip like the one to Salisbury last week I took the K10D and the LX, which is probably my favoured combination --- at least at the moment.

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Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
My website

I must admit my ME Super lies neglected since I got my *istDL

Maybe because I don't have the photography backround you guys have and I could never "see" the image before taking it,so I struggled with film.

But, it could be worth a try, now that I'm improving, ( or at least I think I am ), to go out with the ME and see what results I can get without having the oppurtunity to review the image immediately.

Watch this space

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Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K10d, *istDL, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.

I loved my MX but it sadly passed away, I still use a Spotmatic F for fun, I've two, a well used beat up one with the brass showing purchased in 1977 and a mint one from eBay last year. However the ultimate for me is my 645. Fantastic build quality, a viewfinder like a plasma telly and the most delicious sound, oh, and as a bonus the pictures are really quite good too.

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Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -

Trust me guys, Ken cradles this thing like a baby, he loves it so much he even pointed it at me

Now I have to upset the apple cart by saying I loved my MZ5n but I think I loved my Olympus OM30 even more , but it was a rip off of the ME-F

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