Essentially an Spotmatic F, the KM is what many feel the K1000 should have been. Introduced alongside the KX in 1975 as it’s less […]

1975 saw the introduction of the KX as the advanced-amateur model in the Pentax K series lineup, seen as one step up from the […]

Surprisingly, given it’s decidedly amateur auto-only positioning, this MV1 was “rode hard and put away wet”. It’s one of the most used models in […]

Introduced in 1977, and produced until 1985, the MX represented the flagship of Pentax’s 35mm line. Unlike the ME and derivatives, it features a […]

Pentax introduced the MG in 1981, as the successor to the MV1 and in the line of simpler, automated, bodies going back through MV […]

The camera that launched a million hobbies. If you studied photography in School from the mid ’70s onwards, you probably used a K1000.  

One of the first integrated Auto Focus 35mm SLRs offered – possibly the first. There had been other attempts where the A/F system was […]

Arguably the very best camera Pentax ever made, and their only attempt at the professional 35mm market. This is a cracking camera in every […]

Introduced just 2 years after the ME, the ME Super is one of two cameras that replaced the first auto-mode M series body. I […]

Aperture priority only automatic was a fairly bold move for a 35mm SLR in 1977, but the great handling of the ME won many […]