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What are the SN experts' opinions on this camera?

Pentax Asahi SP1000, 35mm, SLR

http://dennis.demonserver.de/fotos/f...axsp1000_2.jpg

Are they a good brand? Prone to failure?

Thanks.

oooh...sorry for the mahoosive photo... :(

If someone could resize that for me, that would be brilliant, as there's nothing on this PC that can do that here.

Up for the afternoon crowd.

Anyone got one of these?

Hello Mice :D - long time no speak...

Sorry, dunno about the camera - useless as ever :p

I'm sure it's fine - but it can't be worth much now.
35mm SLR's second hand are now peanuts due to digital compacts and now digital SLRs coming into play......

Ooh, 1960s pap look - great cameras, very reliable, heavy as hell. Why get one though, other than nostalgia? For a pure manual camera, I'd go for an Olympus OM-1N, or an OM-2 for an auto/manual.

I've seen very very good 35mm SLRs bodies from Canon & Minolta for under £100 secondhand now...can't think why you'd want to choose to use a 1960's SLR.

The lens doesn't look that special either.....55mm f2.0?

Hi Rich - Hope you're well. :) Thanks for that useful advice. ;) :D

I've got an uptodate digital camera, but like the feel of the old-style ones as well.

What would be the best old-style camera I could get? And would it be worth getting old style looks in digital format and if so....would the Canon still be the better option?

It's getting hard to find lens for old Pentaxes - even my ProgramA is a problem. But those were good cameras in their day. If you want to come forward into the 80s I'd go with Nikon.


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Fine thanks :) - you? I e-mailed you a while back, but maybe you didn't get it?... or you're not talking to me! :p