Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd recommend the Pentax K-1000 for sure. Older screw-mount Pentaxes such as the Spotmatics, while rugged and beautifully built cameras, have metering electronics that cannot be replaced (except maybe by cannibalizing another Pentax) when they go bad, as they are likely to do because of age. Learning to use a hand-held meter may or may not be a lot to ask of a 10-year-old. If you get the kid a K-1000 and he really enjoys using it, the world is full of a wide range of inexpensive but mostly excellent used Pentax lenses, both newer bayonet mount and older screw mount, that will work on that camera, the older ones with a bayonet adapter. Ernest Murphy