The Pentax MX uses a horizontal cloth shutter.While they look alike, they are very different and it is immediately apparent upon using them.
As others have mentioned, the shutter speed on the Olympus is set with a ring around the lens mount. The pentax with the knob on the top.
The Olympus uses a cloth horizontal shutter, the pentax a metal vertical shutter.
The Olympus was made as a pro camera and the mx as a mid-level.
The Olympus used a mercury battery as stated above.
Lol! I don't have that kind of budget. But it is interesting having the pentax's light metering off the film, being able to automatically run many minutes' worth of shutter speed (i.e. night skies, moon, nighttime scenery, etc) and the all-mechanical nature is intriguing.
So the MX runs all shutter speeds without a battery? Or it needs a battery for some and others not?
Right you are. The MX is all mechanical, and manual exposure. 1 sec. to 1/1000 sec., same as the OM-1. No auto anything. The meter reads off the finder screen. The battery is only for the meter.Your description sounds to me more like a Pentax LX than a Pentax MX - if I remember the MX correctly.
Controversially,
Steve
As a longtime OM1 user, (36 years) the Olympus OM is the only film SLR system I have ever owned.
But of course the thread isn't about which camera we prefer, it's about the differences between two, specific models.
In the end, the difference on the film won't be much at all... likely not visible, much less measurable.
I'm curious to see differences between them in market pricing.
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