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Back from the Repair Tech, and A Day Trip to Fergus On.

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Asahi Pentax Spotmatics, I have a soft spot for. I picked up a Spotmatic SP after my brother suggested I get one, they were dirt cheap (at the time) and the Super Multi Coated Takumar glass was something else. About six months later I picked up a Spotmatic F from the Henry's Clearance Outlet. It was the used camera department manager's personal camera.  I shot a lot of film off and on over the years, replaced a light meter (same part as a the one in a later K1000) Fast forward to about early pandemic times, the mirror was starting to seize up, the camera needed servicing. Which I got to finally a few years later.  The Spotmatic F was the last mechanical M42 screw mount in Asahi Pentax's line, there's the ES and ES which were aperture priority bodies but they were different animals, even if they cosmetially looked the same. I dropped the camera off at Halton Camera Exchange in Georgetown at the end of the ski season and it took a few weeks for the camera to work it's...
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Late March Weekend in Midtown

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 We're at the other end of this trio of Fomapan 400 negatives, and a bookend, if I started off with my Leica R5, the Nikon FE2, is probably the closest competing camera body when they were both on the market in the 1980s. While Leica's R5 had features, the Nikon FE2, had two modes, full manual mode, and aperture priority, and shared a lot under the skin with the Nikon FA. If Nikon held off another six months the FE2 would have come with Matrix metering but product planners were hell bent on getting Matrix Metering on the market.  The philosophy of the FE2 would be under the file,  simple and rugged.  While I own both the R5 and FE2 and love both cameras, if I were to recommend a system, Nikon will win every single time for practical reasons. Nikkor glass is cheaper and almost as good as Leica R glass, and are more repair techs that will be able to work on the Nikon FE2 as there are more parts available.  Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor Ai and AIS lenses.  Film: F...
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