ASAHI PENTAX MX

Manual SLR with ultimately small size.
40mm f2.8 "pancake" lens can rarely be found.

IMPRESSION

[Perfect!]

When used in combination with 40mm f2.8 lens designed in nice compact shape, this camera is perfectly small and light-weight manual SLR.

[Not very good]

Rather big shutter sound having some of typical mechanical sound of old Pentax SLR's shutter.
The height of "shoulder" of body is especially small.
OM-3,OM-4 with their higher shoulder can be held more tightly. MX can be recommended to people who prefer handy small camera to bring around to camera with good holding and usage.

Shutter sound(.wav)

DATA
Mechanical shutter, Manual metering exposure.
Start of sales: Nov. 1976
Weight: Body:495g + 40mmf2.8:110g = 605g

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