the fairly slick system in in the Ricoh KR series slr. the wind lever controls the meter, if it is is the ready position, the meter is on, and if it it pressed into the body the meter is off and the shutter is locked.The Minolta SRT and XE had power switches.
The Minolta SRT and XE had power switches. After those, the XD has no power switch but half-press. And after that, the X-series (X700, X570,...) and all AF cameras had power switches again. So the half press seems to me, at least for Minolta SLR (which I know the best), an in-between step. Of course a camera can have a power switch, but most power drain is off when there is no half press (that's how it is with the X-series and AF, I guess).
cassettes are hip again. I have no idea why. It's all the rage.
This is very good for the purpose of being the first production proof of concept, seeing the 17 is sized to also be developed. Congratulations to TKOMore hopeful signs of success, as demand outstrips supply in No. America too:
https://petapixel.com/2024/07/05/ri...g-pentax-17-production-to-catch-up-to-demand/
Nikon F3 had a power on switch and half press to activate the meter. Not even half press. I think the shutter had a sensor when you touched it. I have to check my F3.
Aren't we all, since they were all made on the same assembly lines.
I have 1 K1000 left and it was made in Hong Kong. The KX I have was made in Japan. They can't be on the same assembly line.
All of the parts were -- but where they were produced shifted over time -- and where the parts were assembled shifted over time, too. Same with Minolta, Yashica & others. The guts of all these cameras are the same.
I saw made in Hong Kong K1000 back in 1979 the time when all Japanese brand SLR were made in Japan. I had newer K1000's which were made in China.
Not sure they were ever made in China. First made in Japan (that is where my two were put together), then Pentax moved the assembly to Hong Kong and finally to Vietnam.
One of these days I may have to buy one example each from Hong Kong and Vietnam just to see if they were that much worse. Besides, Pentax quit making all the other K cameras before they moved the assembly of the K1000 out of Japan. By that time they were making the M models like the MX. That K1000 was a VERY long lived camera both from the assembly perspective, the sales perspective and from how long they keep working.
There will probably be parts to keep that camera fixed and running properly long after every other camera made in that same time period is dead and and in some landfill, or museum.
I saw made in Hong Kong K1000 back in 1979 the time when all Japanese brand SLR were made in Japan. I had newer K1000's which were made in China.
Almost exactly like Minolta assembly -- which moved from Japan to Indonesia to China. That has nothing to do with where there parts were actually made -- and they were always made all over the place, and the assembly lines were always supervised by the camera companies. If you want to claim that the assembly in Hong Kong, or China, or Indonesia was worse than in Japan, go ahead.
Some claim the Carl Zeiss lenses made and assembled in Japan in Tomioka plants were inferior.
Some claim the Leica lenses made and assembled in Japan in Minolta plants were superior.
They were not always made all over the world.
Nobody said they were. And no matter where the K1000 was assembled. doesn't mean that all the parts were produced at the same location.
"Japanese" cars are assembled in Canada with parts from all over the world -- and sold in the USA.
Yes the Minolta SrT 101 and SRt 102 have the same quality just different in features but the K1000 isn't of the same quality as the other K mount cameras.
The K1000 was made in Hong Kong at the time when it was not the norm like today. It was a clear decision to make it cheaply and the quality did suffer because at the time workers in the far east outside of Japan were not as good as they are today. Practice does make perfect.
The K1000 was fine as it offered a workable camera for $129 with a lens, half the price of any of the other K mount camera at the time and the same or lower than a point and shoot at the time. It's not however worth the price that it's being sold used today.
Yes the Minolta SrT 101 and SRt 102 have the same quality just different in features but the K1000 isn't of the same quality as the other K mount cameras.
according to Wikipedia Pentax made the K1000 in Hong Kong since 1978 and moved to China in 1990.
Just found an interesting teardown video, looks pretty repairable!
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