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Ethel
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My dear Pentax ME broke (light meter death out of nowhere).
Long story short: getting it repaired is not woth it, so I go a "MV".
This is one of the "cheap" Pentax bodies; it looks like a ME, just has a little more plastic on it, and fewer features: no "lock" setting, no self-timer, no dedicated exposure compensation dial, less big / awesome finder - aaaand: it doesn't say what shutter speed it's going to use; there's really just three little LED's in the finder, indicating "it's too bright", "it's too dark", or "it's all right".
Funny little thing.
So this came with a 50mm/f2 in neat condition I have absolutely no use for (as I already have the superior 1.7), all the original manuals, the bill from 1980, in the original (very nice) packaging - like the camera of an old lady who hardly used it, and took very good care of it.
I got the light meter working after removing the crud and leaked batteries, and cleaning the thing and putting in fresh ones, and was happy to see that the different shutter speeds seemed to be working.
Then I opened the back, and found a shutter that looked like somebody beat it with a hammer.
I decided to shoot ten frames of a roll with this thing, expecting the worst.
To my surprise all but one of the ten are perfect - the one you see below has that weird light-leak-like fading from one side; first I thought I shot that with a really high speed the shutter was not able to master properly, but then remembered it was 1/60 (like some others that were perfectly fine).
Any ideas?
Ps: if anybody wants that 50mm/f2, just holler..
EDIT: sold..