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Pentax LX
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  • Guest 1st Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Pleasure to use, accurate mettering, durability, nice design, good limited series lenses 31mm, 43mm, 77mm.
    Stable under shutter release despite noticeable mirror bounce.
    Real camera, one of few true photographic tools, well recommend the Pentax LX. In fact the only bad points for me is the mirror bo ...

  • malibru 16th Aug 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    After trying nearly every major manufacturer's cameras in the last 25 years (Leica, Mamiya, Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Yashica), when all is said and done, the Pentax LX comes closest to being the ideal SLR.
    The body is nearly indestructible, the incredibly well-designed and compact layout of controls ...

  • Guest 14th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    A great camera, but the Pentax LX is quite unknown... What a pity! Very good handling. Absolutely gorgeous light meter, as on the Olympus (OTF). Pentax lenses a bunch of good lenses, some of them even better than Nikon or Canon. Very reliable camera. Mechanical speeds. Its wide range of EV of it exp ...

  • Steve Andrews Rank: Corporal 13th Dec 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I collect Pentax cameras, however I use my old school Canon A series gear as my main kit, or I did until I got hold of an LX. It looks like nothing special until you start to use it, then you find out that this camera really is something else. You can trust this camera, even at its age, with the bes ...

  • sbs1 21st Sep 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    20 year old small metal pro camera built to last& last minimal battery usage.
    full profesional camera system, first class pentax lenses almost? on a par with lieca,and know where near as expensive also a huge range of lenses supplied by other manufacturers from excelent to nasty, interchangable pri ...

  • x 7th Sep 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Simply the best 35mm camera Pentax have ever made and likely to make
    people are always commenting upon how good the K1000 or the KX(K2000) or the MX or the the spotmatics (been there had em got rid not reliable enough to stake your rep on, when your on assignment in places where the nearist cam sho ...

  • Helen Rank: Lance Corporal 31st Aug 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Super Pro camera first of its kind electro mechanical / mechanical electro
    The Pentax LX - what a machine
    forget the over complicated cameras of today
    if you want a smallish camera that delivers first class optics M or A Pentax lenses at unbelievable cheap prices due to fashion trends + all the ...