I bring this lens every time I travel out of the country or to unsavoury places (usually attached to a beat up old Pentax Super Program) because it doesn’t attract any attention and shoots in program mode allowing me to shoot really quickly. It’s also worth noting is that because of the compact design the focus and aperture adjustment rings are smaller than normal, making it a little more cumbersome when you are in a hurry to grab a shot. While not a perfectly composed image by any stretch of the imagination, it succeeded in its intended goal of highlighting the differences between each lens. If your scene is outside the meter’s range, a red LED glows next to OVER or UNDER labels that bookend the numbers. If I’ve packed up another camera for a particular project, often as not I’ll snap a 50mm or a 28mm onto the ME Super and drop it in the bag as well.

To remove and replace the batteries there is a small compartment located at the bottom of the camera, you need to use a coin to open it. But it’s far from a perfect system, largely because the meter display really isn’t conducive to manual shooting. The Pentax Me Super is best for all kinds of photography, with its compact body, it’s suited to travel, street photography, documentary photography, portrait, editorial and much more. If you want to locate one you might need to check and track what’s available through weeks or months. Last but not least: My Super A took some 12000 shots, sometimes got rough treatment, but never had to go for repair.I am pretty sure you could pass off the 55mm shot as a 50mm lens and no one would notice without something to compare it to. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.

There are a few issues with the camera, sometimes the wind lever gets jammed or the mirror stuck up, so be sure to ask about these issues. I have had a bit of a strange fascination with this focal length since it came attached to a Pentax Kx I picked up a while back. It’s a camera that stays out of the way while enabling the shooter to make fantastic images all the same.Even shooting a canopy of leaves backlit by a glorious mid-day sun resulted in a shot that’s acceptably exposed with pretty terrific tonality. That’s what we intended to find out when, yearning for a break from over-saturation in needlessly-complicated cameras, we decided to head for the beach, alone, with the ME. My Fuji X cameras have unlocked shutter and compensation dials, and I’ve lost shots because one has shifted from A to 4000 or from 0 to -3 as I pulled the camera from the bag. Focusing aids include a horizontal split-ring surrounded by microprisms, and the film speed range is 12 to 1600 ASA/ISO. That means that while the camera will set the shutter speed to the correct value to create a properly exposed photo, the photographer is going to need to set the desired aperture value.