Pentax Spotamatic F

Bob Janes wrote:

Kalimetric wrote:

Do you want checkers or ride? If you want a cool fashion accessory, definitely buy the Spotmatic – the most beautifully designed camera ever. If you want to actually take pictures, get something more modern.

Haha - I am genuinely finding this difficult, though. It's sooo beautiful. I think it might even encourage me to go out and take pictures. Getting out there is the most important thing - can't take many pictures sitting in the house (although I'm working on that too!)
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The Spotmatic F will take great photographs.

Photographers take great photographs, the camera is merely the tool they use to do so. Although the use of a vintage camera might make the experience more romantic.

You don't get much in the way of information in the viewfinder, but it is a camera that inspires and gives you confidence.

Note that you only get open aperture metering if you use SMC M42 Takumar lenses - these have extra connection to pass the aperture value set on the lens to the camera.

If you want a similar standard of camera of a similar vintage with open aperture metering you might want to consider a Minolta SRT - Minolta SR lenses are pretty good quality and reasonably priced.

If you want more lenses that do open aperture but want to stick with Pentax, the K-bayonet KM and KX would fill the bill.

As far a quality of zoom lenses is concerned, back in the 70s zoom design tended to lag some way behind primes (this was a time before computer aided design made great advances in zoom lens quality and capabilities).

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