Yes, but the Spotmatic was an SLR, not a DSLR. That was my point. I purchased my Asahi Spotmatic in 1967.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > I got my first SLR, an Asahi Pentax back in 1969 and they had been around > for awhile then. > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: My first roll of film in a Pentax in decades > > > >Interesting. When I had my Pentax 6X7, the image quality was outstanding. > >Mostly, however, I made contacts and then had enlargement printed. I had > >only 2 lenses for it, both primes. > > > >Did you really mean to say you had been using DSLR cameras for 45 years? > I > >didn't think they have been around that long. > > > > > >Dan Matyola > >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > >On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Last year I was given a Pentax 67, it took me until a couple weeks ago > to > >> finish the first roll of Porta 400. Unfortunately, when Bay scanned it, > >> they scanned it square, so I need to bring it in for rescanning. > >> > >> Here are the photos with the horizon straightened, color balance and > >> exposure tweaked. They seem to be scanned at about 200dpi which may be > >> higher resolution than the grain at about 30MP. > >> > >> Photographing with this camera doesn't have the comfortable flow of > using > >> the 35mm DSLR that I've had for 45 years. The general image quality > seems > >> to be a bit lower than that of an APS DSLR, except maybe in really > bright > >> light. I've got a second roll of film that I'll try to shoot a lot more > >> promptly, but at the very least, using this is really making me > appreciate > >> my K-1. > >> > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157699216746255 > >> > >> -- > >> Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
