A friend of mine has a MX and it is about 23years old. Till last year it
worked fine but this year is showed some film transport problem. What
happened was that the teeth of the spindle on which the film runs, slipped
quite often. As a result, it ended with superposed exposure between
adjacent frames. According to my friend, the camera is very old and wants
to part from me. Besides this it also showed some other problems when
operated in subzero temperature. The remained locked up evenif the shutter
was released and this happened many times. This was the story last year.
Cheers,
Ayash Kanto.
On Thu, 10 May 2001, dick graham wrote:
> Last weekend I spent some time in Barnes & Noble. In the photography
> section I found a book entitled "Classic 35mm SLRs". It coverd almost
> every 35mm slr from the late 1940's on. The Pentax section was quite
> complete but when the author got to the M series(ME, ME Super,MX, etc.) he
> advised against purchising these cameras unless one was quite sure the body
> was new. He stated that the M series was plagued from the very beginning
> by film transport problems. Atlthough I don't own one, I know that it is
> one of the most popular Pentax cameras on the list. How many of you out
> there with an M camera have experienced the film transport problems he
> warned about.
>
> DG
>
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