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Comment by JayGreenaway posted on Why did you choose Pentax? at 16/01/2012 - 02:17
Very fair price for body/lens/meter - particularly if the meter works, which the ad asserts it does. At least, it says the needle moves, I think.
Trouble is, I've bought several off fleabay with the sellers claiming they THOUGHT it worked. But only one has, and that's now died. I've disposed of the others for spares on aforesaid fleabay. Actually, thought of going for it myself, but already have one, from the first batch of about 1200.
Anyone spotted the fleabay auction for one at - wait for it - £6,000-plus. Yes. THREE noughts after the six. There's always one!
Trouble is, I've bought several off fleabay with the sellers claiming they THOUGHT it worked. But only one has, and that's now died. I've disposed of the others for spares on aforesaid fleabay. Actually, thought of going for it myself, but already have one, from the first batch of about 1200.
Anyone spotted the fleabay auction for one at - wait for it - £6,000-plus. Yes. THREE noughts after the six. There's always one!
Comment by JayGreenaway posted on Pentax S3 at 17/11/2010 - 14:22
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Not sure this qualifies as a great pic, but it's the shot that won me a K1000 (plus a couple of lenses) in the tale related a few posts earlier. This was taken with Spotmatic and Takumar 250mm prime, from quite a long way back in the crowd at Paddock Hill Bend, Brands Hatch. It was a support race at the 1978 British GP, so the circuit was absolutely packed. Getting shots was a matter of pot luck, trying to find a gap between other spectators' heads.
The chap who won the BMW 316 submitted a capture from Lodge Corner, Oulton Park, which was also my regular haunt. I took this shortly after disembarking from an overnight coach trip between Cheshire and Kent...