Hi Brian,
I own an MF and two MF-1s but don't know much more than you. I do
believe that it is meant for some sort of endoscope/gastroscope set up which
would bayonet on to the end of the lens/adapter. Only one of mine has the
endoscope adapter and it is different to yours - shorter and with the
designation AP-K55 so I guess there were different focal length adapters to
vary the magnification.
A couple of other things - you say it has no focussing screen, but does it have
the semi-spherical protrusion below the prism? If I mount a lens on mine I
still get a focussed image. The other thing is that although based on the ME it
has the two pins on the back for the old-style databack which would make it the
only ME style body to do so.
Paul Ewins
Melbourne, Australia
On 06/11/2012, at 7:49 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> G'day all
>
> I knew these things existed - there's a photo of a similar one on Boz's site
> - but I'd never seen one "in the flesh" until the last camera market in
> Sydney.
>
> So I just had to have it :-)
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP1108-peso.html
>
> It's of absolutely no practical use but it's interesting, just the same.
> It's based on the ME but has no focusing screen and a has spot meter built
> into the top of the pentaprism. The apparently missing right had strap
> connector isn't. That's the way it came from the factory.
>
> This one is the original half-frame version - the one on Boz's site is the
> later full frame version (MF-1). There was also a similar one based on the
> MX (see Dario's Asahi Optical Historical Club).
>
> A couple of questions..
>
> Was this the only half frame camera Pentax produced?
>
> Does anyone know exactly how it was used? All that crops up in internet
> searches is that it was used "for medical purposes" - some say optometry;
> some say endoscopy.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Brian Walters
> Western Sydney Australia
> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
>
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