Pentax ME Super

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Manufactured or assembled in Japan from 1980 to 1986.
Index of rarity in France: Frequent (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 1073

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Traduction de Sylvain Halgand

ME Super was a large success of the beginning of the Eighties.
It is about one 24 X 36 SLR cameras, with automatic preselection of the diaphragm. Shutter MFC-E2 allows the 4 seconds speeds the 1/2000 of second. It is possible to use this camera without battery, to the 1/125 of second. Speeds of synchronization with the flashes is the 1/125.
In the finder, three colors of diode appear: the green indicates speeds between 1/2000 and 1/60, the yellow speeds between 1/30 and 4 seconds, the red under-exposure or the correction of exposure or the manual mode.
The required batteries, two, are of the 1,5 volt with silver oxide or alkaline.
This body is of small size. Its weight is also less than that of the majority of its competitors of the moment: 445 grams.