So, did I understand correctly that the aperture priority mode cannot be used with vintage lenses with K mount? What about TAv mode? Can one use it with all vintage lenses?
@PentaxTips3 күн бұрын
You cannot use AV/TAv mode (auto shutter speed calculated when rotating aperture ring) with vintage k-mount lenses because when mounted on the camera, the aperture does not close down when you rotate the aperture ring, it stays wide open. So, the only way to get a light meter reading for your shutter speed is to hit the green button, which stops down the lens aperture and takes the shutter speed reading.
@kwazar380311 сағат бұрын
@@PentaxTips Thanks for your answer. In this case I have another question: Is it possible to have a depth of field preview while using vintage k - mount lenses?
@etusuku88488 күн бұрын
Nice video, one thing came into my mind, if the meter needle is at the center and does not move at all, then you have a dead battery or broken meter. Fortunately the battery is very cheap type, a LR44 or equivalent.
@tomsun315912 күн бұрын
Is there any benefit of the PEF over the DNG Format beside its is proprietary?
@xmeda22 күн бұрын
Fastest Pentax is still the mighty K20D in that fancy 21fps mode :D :D
@gilgaladxx839322 күн бұрын
I use another camera system, so I am asking if Pentax modern lens mount is called Pentax K for modern and old lenses ? disregarding about af comptability etc. just in order to mount the lens and recognize the correct adapter for mount modern pentax lens on mirrorless, thanks
@PentaxTips22 күн бұрын
Pentax started off with the M42 screw mount. Then in the 70s switched to the K-Mount and have used that mount ever since. However, there have been many iterations of the K-Mount with different functions (auto aperture/ auto focus/types of auto).
@Pifferfish22 күн бұрын
Well. You could take that photo IN Jasper without light pollution now... Jokes aside, this has been a super useful video and I just picked up my own o-gps1 for my K50!
@user-yd6eu2bf3k27 күн бұрын
Спасибо.
@BenKriegerАй бұрын
I'm a beginner to photography. I know absolutely nothing! But I want to get started right away. What kind of film should I buy? Color or B&W. I have a Spotmatic SPII
@PentaxTipsАй бұрын
Illford HP5 B&W and develop the film yourself at home !
@sumansen1807Ай бұрын
You should never ever do it at home! It's one of the most delicate parts that is easily scratched. Always send your camera to a professional service center.
@railsponyАй бұрын
It really is a star not an asterisk because it is 5-pointed, not 6-pointed. :)
@Groovvy81Ай бұрын
do you have a link to those tweezer and finger gloves? I can't find it online
@terrywbreedloveАй бұрын
Just ordered one from KEH for $100. I already have the Pentax 55mm F1.8 screw mount lens. Can’t wait to get it in and shoot the first roll. Which will be Kodak TRI-X 400 film.
@thecaveofthedeadАй бұрын
Excellent work. Congratulations.
@wrenchmonkey3920Ай бұрын
oof... An f2 50 on the LX. Unacceptable.
@urwholefamilydiedАй бұрын
5:51 it's I.S.O... not "eye-so". It's an acronym not a word.
@britneymycheleАй бұрын
SIR!! This video is PERFECT. My goodness!! Awesome work.
@baginatoraАй бұрын
Can I change the focusing screen on my K-r with that from a vintage Pentax (the ones that have split circle focusing screen)? Are they the same size?
@PentaxTipsАй бұрын
They are not the same sizes.
@baginatoraАй бұрын
@@PentaxTips Thanks!
@ronbokje6213Ай бұрын
I have it for so many years I can't remember when I got it, with the 40 pancake and the nice 20mm. my sister and dad had also one, so to silver and one black MX. my dad still had all the old lenses and gave it to me, so I got the Pentax K1 markII and I'm still using these nice lenses, think I only have one autofocus lens but most of the time I grab my old glass. only one of all the lenses is not working properly, the 85 has stiff aperture blades, but the rest is still going very strong
@gregrudzinskiАй бұрын
A most excellent tutorial. Thanks for posting :)
@kubotwostringz7040Ай бұрын
Hello 👋 Around 32:10 you say that four shots from Pixel Shift can be combined in post production etc... Doesn't the camera combine the four images for you, in body?
@PentaxTipsАй бұрын
It’s both! (I think) In addition to the automatic in-camera processing, If you use the supplied software from Pentax, I think it’s called Digital Camera Utility, and you can edit and the combine the images manually. I’ve never done this, but I think that’s how it works.
@kubotwostringz7040Ай бұрын
@@PentaxTips Okay... I'm planning to get the KF and I'm using Linux, so I'm hoping the camera stitches all four images in-body, and produces a single RAW file. It would be great if you're able to check and let us now 🙂👍 And thank you.
@TheGaryMcCАй бұрын
Didn't work on my iPhone 11
@s0mebellАй бұрын
how to afc in video mode?
@mikepxg6406Ай бұрын
Massive error. you have drawn the circuit completely incorrectly. the wiper of the shutter/ASA potentiometer is connected to A, there is a ground connection on this potentiometer connected via a screw to ground the third connection on this potentiometer goes to the meter switch and back to the battery. RX on your drawing should be a pair of CDS cells and R3 is the calibration resistor set at factory. Also the spotmatic battery has a positive ground and the negative is switched the current flows in the opposite direction. Why don't you download a spotmatic service manual and check out a real schematic.
@TheChiariusАй бұрын
Any advice on which cheap electronic flash unit to mount?
@paulmatthews8708Ай бұрын
That’s a superb and definitive overview. Well done and thank you.
@sharikmariusАй бұрын
This was far better than any instruction manual I read fot the Spotmatic. And I presently have both the original manual and the independent book that was published for Spotmatic owners. Thank you!
@scrptwicАй бұрын
I had to put new light seals in my Spotamatic as well a new mirror bumper. I had no idea the seals were bad until somebody gave me a roll of film and none of the pictures came out
@22fretАй бұрын
This is exactly my travel combo: MX and the 2.8/40. Verly light and compact. Usually I take an additional 2.8/100 with me and that's it...
@ivaneberle3972Ай бұрын
I used an LX professionally for 20+ years. A few significant issues: 1). Critically sharp focus will be hard to maintain or achieve once the mirror rest rubber bumper stops degrade and need to be replaced. 45 years on, they all will have needed this service multiple times whether used or stored--and will likely need this service again, immediately, hence the abundance of eBay listings 2). Sticky Mirror Syndrome is not same as #1 but unrelated solenoid located under bottom cover 3). Viewfinder unlocking lever will also stick over time with use and finder won't release. 4). these being hybrid manual-shutter/electronic shutter bodies, they're complicated and daunting to repair yourself 5). Motordrive LX is fragile and ridiculously complcated; Winder LX however is relatively is robust 6). Parts for LX have been unobtainium for 15+ years, and Pentax no longer services them.
@Flavio.BucciarelliАй бұрын
................this is much better than the new Pentax 17.
@sdhuteАй бұрын
Being the Pentax 17 has been released is there going to be a run on older Pentax film cameras and DSLRs?
@lexlayabout57572 ай бұрын
Very good review. I have had an LX since the 1980s, complete with the motor drive @7:50. Best manual focus 35mm camera ever made IMHO, the rival Nikon F3 and Canon F1 both had comparative disadvantages. However the LX never really got far into the pro market because Nikon and Canon were already entrenched there. The waist level finders don't need the aperture window because you are looking down at the scale on the lens anyway. The FE-1 is called a "waist level" finder but in fact it needs to be close to the eye : it is really for macro work. The simple FF-1 can really be used at waist level however. The FP flash connection is for old-school bulb flash and the LX must have been about the last camera made with one. The X flash connection could (but not necessarily) take a special sync lead (lower picture @2:18) that picked up the TTL and "Ready" signals from those two small gold contacts, but that was for a hammerhead flash unit (Pentax AF400T), not the hotshoe-mounted flashes shown @2:21 which got all they needed from the hot shoe.
@ChasWG2 ай бұрын
I discovered this method myself fairly recently and have been loving the results! I need to just sit down with all my old B&W negatives and start "scanning" them in. I had a set of the Asahi Pentax Bellows II for a while, but I never had the slide copier. So I found one that was in perfect shape for like $15 and that's when I discovered the little door at the back that fits the negatives in it perfectly. So cool and so much cheaper to do it this way with this gear than buying one of the many cheap plastic scanners out there for way too much money! Also, thanks for doing the math and showing the pages from the booklet. That is one thing I don't have with my bellows set up.
@22fret2 ай бұрын
Excellent camera, love mine to bits. But mine looks as good as new whereas this one seems a bit worn...
@PentaxTips2 ай бұрын
Patina ;)
@22fret2 ай бұрын
@@PentaxTips Yeah, I really like that. Especially in black bodies when the brass is becoming visible everywhere...
@wimvanheugten28322 ай бұрын
@@22fretNo brass body elements for the LX. You may notice a gray/silver colour under the black paint.
@22fret2 ай бұрын
@@wimvanheugten2832 No, the LX doesn't have a brass body, but almost all the other bodies do. A heavily used black MX or KX looks absolutely gorgeous...
@lesdmess8452 ай бұрын
Very thorough review! Unlike the other aperture priority capable cameras, the LX has no viewfinder blind as light entering it does not influence the meter for the reasons you pointed out. I agree that with the FA-2 finder on, it looks like the original Asahi Pentax!
@dougmiller79442 ай бұрын
Nice overview, this is a great system bought mine new back in the 80's after starting with K1000. Bought up most of the accessories used , still with Pentax today.
@XATNEP12 ай бұрын
Excellent overview of this amazing camera and the system accessories. One advantage of the frame counter going backwards is the ability for multiple exposures. The 250 exposure back and motor drive were also able to be remotely controlled by Power Pack M which opened up time lapse photography as well. Such a well thought out system camera, thank you for another wonderful video
@CethWasHere2 ай бұрын
I just picked one up at the thrift store for $99, with the original manual and reciept from 1989, for $1100!
@sdhuteАй бұрын
Awesome find
@wimvanheugten28322 ай бұрын
Excellent overview of this wonderful camera. I have two corrections. When resetting the exposre compensation dial you don't have to press the button. The dial just clicks at the "1x" setting. Furthermore to release the prism you can move the small lever counter-clockwise without pressing that same button. So that button is only used to release the exposurre compensation dial to set it. On later versions of the LX a feature was added to the knob. By pressing the knob the exposure meter was switched on for 30 seconds (like half-pressing the shutter button).
@cosminovidiumunteanu2 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thanks a lot :)
@jw483352 ай бұрын
An amazing camera, my favorite among all the "professional" grade manual focus SLRs. I have owned and extensively used them all, the Minolta XK, the Canon New F1, the Nikon F3, the Contax RTS, Leica R4, Olympus OM4, etc. etc. Sadly the LX electronics aren't as resilient over time as most others. In the end after trying darn near everything, I kept the Canon for four reasons - the mechanical shutter speed selection when the battery is dead goes from 1/125 through 1/2000, the camera's electronics are bulletproof, it has a classic needle meter, and the biggest? The speed finder is the best manual focus viewfinder ever made. Of course, the prism weighs a lot, but that's OK with me:) The laser matte J screen is also amazing. The LX is very similar with the rotating prism finder. I did *not* like the way you have to change the screens on the LX though - I managed to scratch one pretty good. Great comprehensive coverage here of an amazing camera. I still have an MX on a shelf - love the huge viewfinder on that too, but it's slated for fleabay, since that model suffers from stuck mirror problems exacerbated by age.
@alexstubbs40342 ай бұрын
nice
@koby19602 ай бұрын
If you leave the lens on manual could you take a light reading without using the stop down switch?
@CP.9.2 ай бұрын
Could I use this equipment in the same style as the Valoi Easy35? So by putting my macro lens on my camera first which has a 49mm filter thread, getting a 42mm step down ring to attach just one or both of the bellows to act in the same way as the extension tubes on the easy35? Loved the video, this is such a unique way!
@paulgood22182 ай бұрын
The 55mm f2.2 semi auto any idea how to get the apeture to close properly mine will not spring shut when released . The pin to release it works fine but there is no movement unless I take lens off and move the apature lever manually on back the lens
@RobHardin-eu5vl2 ай бұрын
Some of this could be washed out Using the Lightroom app Or any other app to fix the problems. I don’t deny the problems are existing. I own a k-70 it’s all I could afford. And I’ve been doing pretty good with it. Maybe one day when I can afford it, I’ll get a k-1iii But until then, I’ll stick to what I got.
@midiwerks54502 ай бұрын
A very informative video, nice work. The one bit of advice you give that I disagree with is to not really mess with the metering modes. There's a reason there's a dedicated button on the back panel. Prior to recently buying my K-1 II, I've been using it on my K-5 IIs for years. The metering mode is under the mode dial there. My advice to anybody is to pick something in your house to shoot, preferably near a light source. Take shots in all 3 metering modes, and it becomes pretty obvious how they behave. It's really not exactly the same result you get by playing with exposure compensation.
@exitar12 ай бұрын
Why didn't you show video recording with the new plm to see how it works?
@isaito7892 ай бұрын
for some reason, moving the aperture ring on the lens doesn't change the light meter LED readout. The DOF preview works properly and it's a K mount lens. For example, it will be green, but when I press the DOF preview it could turn red. I'm trying to understand what's going on here and whether there's something wrong with the light meter.
@PentaxTips2 ай бұрын
There are two levers on the back of the lens. One is very small but rotates when the aperture ring is moved. That little lever actuates a small coupler on the camera body. I bet that little coupler on the camera body is bent and not connecting with the lens correctly.
@ootachi2 ай бұрын
i remember my first time looking down the mx's viewfinder and almost being thrown back coming from much darker viewfinders. no youtube comparisons or written descriptions can do it justice, you gotta try it yourself