You are bidding on a Pentax K1000 with an SMC Pentax-M 50mm f2 Lens!!
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The outfit has just been Professionally Serviced!!
The entire outfit was cleaned and lubricated, and all functions were put back into factory tolerances (a $95.00 Value). The door hinge, mirror and door channel foams were also replaced. The shutter curtains are smooth and undamaged and the film rails are clean.
The lens is in great shape; the glass is clear and fungus free, the focus and aperture rings move smoothly and the diaphragm is "snappy".
If you have a student who needs a camera for this semester, this is the outfit for you!! It has everything you need to get started in learning the "Art of Photography".
The K1000 is the most popular student camera ever made.
There is a 90-Day Warranty on this outfit!
The Pentax K1000 (originally marked the Asahi Pentax K1000) was a beginner or student level, interchangeable lens, single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. It was manufactured by Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. (Pentax Corp.since 2002) from 1976 to 1997, originally in Japan. It used a horizontal travel rubberized silk cloth focal plane shutter with a speed range of 1 to 1/1000th second plus Bulb and a flash X-sync of 1/60th second. It had dimensions of 91.4 mm height, 143 mm width, 48 mm depth and 620 g weight. Unlike most SLR's of the time, the K1000 was available in only one color: black with chrome trim. The K1000 was the simplest member of Asahi Optical's Pentax K-series SLR's.
The K1000's extraordinary longevity makes it a historically significant camera, despite its very ordinary design. In truth, it was already obsolete when it was first released. The K1000's inexpensive simplicity turned out to be a great virtue and earned it an unrivaled popularity as a basic but sturdy workhorse; supremely well suited to teaching budding photographers proper photographic skills. Many professional photographers first learned photography using the K1000.
The K1000 was an almost all metal, mechanically (springs, gears, levers) controlled, manual-focus SLR with manual exposure control. It was completely operable without batteries. It only needed one battery for the light metering information system. This consisted of a center-the-needle exposure control system using a galvanometer needle pointer moving between vertically arranged +/– over/underexposure markers at the right side of the viewfinder to indicate the readings of the built-in full-scene averaging, cadmium sulfide (CdS) light meter versus the actual camera settings. Note that the meter did not have a true on/off switch and that the lens cap needed to be kept on the lens to prevent draining the battery when the K1000 was not in use.