Beautiful lens!

Superb - great choice

Coming back to the OP, I have a Ricoh XR1 which ticks the boxes - effectively a modern K1000 with shutter match needle readout in the finder.

That probably makes more sense - sub-contracting assembly rather than adopting Cosina's design.

Late to the conversation, but as the owner of a P30 and Cosina CT1a, which is essentially the basis for all Cosina bodies including the rangefinders, I would be extremely surprised if there was any design heritage from Cosina. There is absolutely no comparison - the Pentax finder is 2 stops brighter, there is a proper led/shutter readout/memory exposure lock and much superior materials and build quality. The obvious comparisons would be the Nikon FM10 which clearly is derived from a Cosina body, as is the Canon T60.

Scratch that comment, Pentax obviously did - looks good!


http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/bodies/film_MZ-ZX/mzzx5n.html

Did they make the MZ5n in black?

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Wow!

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