The carveable grip is not wood- it's a brown-colored plastic. The LX meters through the mirror when the mirror is down, using a secondary mirror on its back to reflect light to the photocell. Most cameras do not meter through the mirror, as stated; they meter off the focusing screen.

Pentax LX was released in 1980 as was also the Nikon F3. But LX absurdly doesn't have AE-L. Sure '81 Canon New F1 also doesn't have AE-L, plus no MLU so even more absurd. And that when F3 had it, XM/XK/X-1 had it even from '72 altrough not official not just from the '76 upgrade, also from '76 DMD had it, R3 also had it, from '77 EL2, '78 FE, '79 A-1, 139Q, '80 F3 and R4, '81 X700, '83 X570, FE2, F3AF, FA, OM4, etc...In '86 beside Pentax having again AE-L, Oly OM4Ti introduced HSS named ( new) FP with flash burst in sync with the slit @ F280 flash up to 1/2000s, wey before F5 @ SB26 up to 1/8000s, wey before 1V and MZ-S. OTF metering on LX is not a reason for not having AE-L, because it also has the normal metering for viewfinder information and at least for starting AV exposure. Even more absurd it was made for 20 years ( as was F3), and was upgraded but only from 1600 iso to 3200 when '75 K2 had 6400... It has a great 0.9X magnification viewfinder but with also very stupid superimposed shutter speeds over the actual frame in viewfinder, but sure at least are on the right and not backwards on the left like on ME Super...It also has pretty big problems with the mirror stop down bumper that needs replacement, plus shutter recalibration. The X sync @ 1/75s is also pretty stupid when XM had 1/100s in 1972 with a similar shutter, but sure in real life even 1/2000s is not enough for fill light in bright day light. It has a separate dedicated FP sync up to 1/2000s with the obsolete long burning flat peak bulbs ( 1/1000s on K2), but if we want to shoot wide open so as to blur the crap in the background, in bright day light like for f16@1/125@100 with 1/2000s we can open just to the mundane f4 and that only with 100 iso and not realy with the brightest sky. We need 1/4000 for f2.8, 1/8000s for f2, 1/12K s for f 1.8 ( Minolta made 2 SLRs models that can do this), 1/16K to f1.4, 1/24 K to f1.2 and we stop there with Pentax because the K mount is not big enough for f1...But the long travel horizontal shutter, even made for LX from titanium foil like on Canon F1, Nikon F2, Minolta XM first pro body with AV copy of F2 upgraded with AV, Nikon F3, Canon New F1 and '82 Contax RTS II ( that was the last but absurdly the worse with 1/60s X sync and no dedicated fast FP sync), it was also obsolete because it has longer horizontal rolling shutter so prone to more distortion from the longer distance the slit has to travel plus the slower true max speed without the slit artifice.

@deadshot640

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I agree with much of what you have to say. Luckily I've never had issues with shutter re-calibration with my three LX bodies, however I did have the delayed mirror movement issue with one, which was repaired this year. While the LX isn't perfect, it is the only weather-sealed camera of the group, it came with the most viewfinder options (including the largest and smallest magnification), no viewfinder blind is needed for long exposures because of the OTF metering, and the LX has more mechanical shutter speeds with dead batteries. While I have a 50mm f/1.2 lens on my LX, I rarely use it at f/1.2. I don't think I'd ever use f/1 even if it was available except for once to test it. We're lucky to have so many choices in amazing cameras!

@loochan325

7 ай бұрын

@@deadshot640 I had hybrid shutters on 7 cameras for 50 years from ES II, ST901, K2 Black, K2DMD, LX, LXT, FM3A, and that without counting the ones that had only one ore two shutter speeds without the bateries, and I have never ever needed to use this because 2 X SR44 or 2 x LR44 last 10 K actuations on my K2, and not just 1 year like in Pentax manual but even up to 10 years of serious use, even including some long exposures 30 - 90+s. From '95 to 2005 I had only one set of Varta LR 44 in my K2, not even SR44, and I use it a buge lot - even more then LX, SF10, Z1, Z1p, MZ-S combined, and it has battery check with a red LED and I pressed that push button every time before using it, and when finaly it was low - less bright in 2005 the stutter still worked just fine and I always had spares whith me - 2 x SR44 is realy nothing to carry around, I have them in a small translucent Fuji film box. K2 can be used without beteries not just for B and 1/125s, but also 1/250s, 1/500s and 1/1000s, sure only in full stops, not stepless like in AV. Without bateries also works at 1/125s on all longer settings up to 8s, but from 1/125s to 1/1000s works as it should with faster exposure. I never needed this. I use it mostly in AV, and full manual with bateries only with a manual flash - rare because Pentax had autorobo also from '75, and also rare when I need more then 2 EV exposure compensation. DMD has AE-L ( ML) so no need for full M other then for full manual flash. SF10 has even spot and AE-L, and also Z1, Z1p, MZ-S and sure *istD DSLR. Z20 is a good reliable camera that does't have AE-L, it has exp. comp. button insted on the back...

@loochan325

7 ай бұрын

Regarding fast lenses, my K2 black had kit SMC 55 f1.8 and not the SMC 50 f1.2 as on the manual cover, and that was good because that lens has chromatic aberations. smc A 50 f1.2 is better in this regard. My DMD was body only but I have all the good Pentax lenses from 15 to 300 from K to FA. My SF10 had smc F 50 f1.7 and that one get to be the kit also on my Z1, Z1p and MZ-S even though smc F 35-70 f3.5-4.5, smc F 28-80 f3.5-4.5 and smc FA* 28-80 f2.8 are pretty good. My MZ-S had kit FA 24-90 f3.5-4.5 made in TW my only non MIJ Pentax lens, and I hate it, even if I still have it...cold rendering combined with exaggerated contrast that eat the shadows details and drowns them in black ink like poured from above, but also prone to flare even with the stupid expensive and rare dedicated lens hood, flares with a huge loss of contrast not 100% total damage like Canon but over 90%...and that when smc F 28-80 f3.5-4.5 stoped down just one full stop has zero loss of contrast with brigh sun in the frame even though it has 12 lens elements. And FA 24-90 IF also has focus focal breathing, plastic feeling, no zoom dampening, etc. Regarding f 1.0, Canon EF 50 f1.0 from the eos 1 old era, early '90s, is pretty nice and I like it. EF 50 f1.4 is slso nice - well outside of being prone to flare like most Canon lenses...pretty hard to accept for a pentaxist used to SMC from the '70s. I don't like the Canon 50 and 85 f1.2. EF 85 f1.4 that was expected 30 years like something for the Pentax land is OKish. K 85 f1.8 OK, A* 85 f1.4 very good. M 100 f2.8 is much better then I expected but I would like a 90 f1.7. FA* 85 f1.4 nope - very dull grey broken bokeh. DFA 85 f1.4 also nope, harsh bokeh from 1.5m that is the most used distance for it, plus wey to big, heavy and expensive but I don't like it anywey. EF 85 f1.8 and EF 100 f2 non macro have huge pink background bokeh chromatic aberation plus unreliable AF.

@deadshot640

7 ай бұрын

Good points, loo. So did Pentax intentionally leave AE-L off the LX, or was it an oversight as some suggest? My FA* 85 looks great on film, but I much prefer the FA Limited lenses.

@flowermaze___

5 ай бұрын

The beauty is that there are so many cameras to choose from that one doesn’t have to tick EVERY box. Go easy on the LX 🤣 it’s an amazing little camera. Quirks and all