Lomopedia: Pentax MX

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Along with Pentax ME, the Pentax MX was a 35 mm compact SLR camera introduced by Pentax as an answer to the trend of compact SLRs set by Olympus with the OM-1.

Pentax MX © Bilby via Wikimedia Commons

This all-manual, mechanical camera was equipped with a horizontal focal plane shutter with speeds of 1s to 1/1000, a 0.97x viewfinder that covers 95% of the field, a hot shoe on the prism, a standard TTL exposure meter, a lock lever around the release button, and a self-timer.

Pentax MX © Tassilo Von Parseval via Flickr, Image used under Creative Commons

The Pentax MX also adopted a system introduced by Olympus with the OM-1, wherein the finder was fixed but the finder screen can be interchanged with eight options through the bayonet mount. The MX and ME can accommodate lenses of the K bayonet mount, but SMC Pentax-M compact lenses were also released alongside them.

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Technical Specifications

Camera Type: 35 mm SLR
Variants: chrome, black, MX Data
Focusing: manual
Lens mount: Pentax K
Shutter: focal plane, horizontal, cloth
Shutter Speeds: 1s to 1/1000
Exposure meter: TTL, open aperture, center weighted
Exposure modes: manual
ASA/ISO range: 25 to 1600 ISO
Finder screen: interchangeable, 8 types
Shoe: fixed hot shoe
X sync speed: 1/60
TTL Flash: no
Motor drive: external Winder MX (2i/s) or Motor MX (5i/s)
Battery: 2 × 1.5V
Weight: 495 g w/o lens


All information for this article was sourced from Camerapedia.

written by plasticpopsicle on 2014-04-11 #gear #lomopedia #35mm #review #pentax #pentax-mx #slr-camera #lomopedia

One Comment

  1. lannie
    lannie ·

    Beautiful! What film did you use for the 1st picture of the train??

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