Here is a Motor drive-A for sale. The condition is like new.
All the contacts and battery contacts are perfect.
It takes 8 AA batteries. A manual comes with it.
It fits the "Super-A","Program-A", "Super Program-A" and I believe the "ME Super" and "ME II" models.
Note: this is not a winder, but a motor-Drive.

It is faster. It synchronizes instantly when mounted on a camera. The winder does not.

Why do I want to sell it? It feels to big for me when I use it with my Super A. I use the winder, which is not as good, but fits my hands better.

Again, It is like new. The price is $AU50.- (GBP 27.-) and postage to anywhere in Europe (UK belongs to Europe) or any other country is $AU18.20 (GBP 9.80) If it is less then I will refund the difference.

You can pay me with PayPal. I don't charge PayPal fees or you can pay in to my German Bank account if this is easier.
I'll give you the details if anyone buys it.

Regards, Horst

Here are some pictures of it:

Pentaxophile wrote:

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I have ordered a bunch of correction gels from an Ebay seller in England.
however it will take most probably about 3 weeks to get here.

Regards, Horst

Very interesting. Thanks for that link.

For old codgers like me, it is always nice to look back and see some of the things we bought and the many thing we would have like to have bought

1965 I still had my Vitomatic IIa which I bought on the never-never about 2 months after I arrived in Australia 1962.

Regards, Horst

Hi Pentaxophile,

Thanks for the info. I will try the correction gel.
I am using an external flash and could easy stick something like it on to it.

regards, Horst

well, what i tried to do is to use the simplest way of achieving the result I like.
The problem with all the functions in the menu is, that you first have to find them every time You want to use them and then reset them to your favorite position.
Of course many of you have no problems with this, or setup one ore more user functions. But I really find it to awkward.
It is very simple with the filter, especially with portraits and family shots (yes I do them. no need to smirk) I can now use the flash and not have to worry about the colour.

My normal white balance is set to either daylight or shade.

Regards, Horst

It worked. Thanks for that.

regards, Horst

The amazing part is, Rico also had a SLR which then disappeared.
Now they are back in business.

Regards, Horst

Hi, I'm normally not to keen on using the flash.

However sometimes it is the only way. It always looked to me to cold.
i tried to use various White balance settings, but this didn't seem to work that well. Plus I then forgot to set it back to dayligt during normal
operation.
I bought this Tiffen 812 filter. This seem to work well.
The colours are warmer and very close to the original

I've added two pictures to show the difference.
The first without and the second with the filter.

The lens was the 77mm f 1.8 set to f8.

Without filter.




This one is with the Tiffen 812 Filter.
The colours are correct. Especially the speaker cloth,





The Flash I used was Pentax AF200T on the Auto setting

Regards, Horst

Hi, I just had a look at a 1969 Photographic magazine.

I decided to count the different makes of prismatic SLR cameras.
I counted 20 different brands most of them with more than 1 model.

Now, I think we have only 3 survivors.

Pentax, Canon and Nikon. I am not sure if the Sony or Minolta are prismatic models.

So it says something for Pentax, that they managed to survive when so many others didn't.

Regards, Horst

Hi, I have a Pentax K5.

Does anyone know, how to make double exposures with this camera?

I had a look in the manual, but it does not mention it.

Regards, Horst