Talk:Pentax K1000

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How to Eject Film
HoW DO YOU GET FILM OUT OF THE PENTAX K100?!??@!@@# --65.92.124.174 18:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Pull up firmly on the rewind knob and the back will open. Paul1513 16:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * After pressing the rewind release button on the bottom of the camera and rewinding the film, of course. :) Sharpvisual 03:01 10 Aug 2006 (UTC)

Broken Link
The link for the Pentax manual is broken. I will attempt to find a new link. Tommy.rousse 22:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed link from Pentax and added a link to a manual in color and .jpg instead of .pdf. Tommy.rousse 22:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Film Box Memo Holder
The entry states that the camera does not even have a film box end memo holder. Mine has - serial number 6020737 - this means a) the entry is wrong or b) some previous owner has gone to the trouble of prising one off another camera and sticking it on mine. Is it worth suggesting that this sentence should have a "citation required" marker until this earth-shattering matter is finally resolved? 81.152.153.61 21:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The one that I have (and currently selling) does not have a film box memo holder. It is SN#:8022442 ... Maybe it was only for specific models? Or maybe your's was added... hmmm... Mazakar (talk) 08:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


 * When the Pentax K-series was designed during the early 1970s, film box end memo holders were not a standard 35 mm SLR feature, and the KM and K1000 were introduced without one, although the K2 and KX did have one. (All of the M-series have a memo holder.) As late as their October 1977 issue, Modern Photography magazine thought film reminder slots were still novel enough that it was explicitly pointed out in their test report on the Nikon FM.


 * It is possible that Asahi Optical included a memo holder on some production batches over the K1000's long 21 year run – I don't have information detailed enough to confirm or refute that, except to say no book, manual or brochure I've seen mentions a factory produced memo slot. Instead, please note that because the feature was considered ingeniously handy, aftermarket adhesive-backed memo holders sprang up so that photographers could add one to cameras that didn't originally come with one. If you bought your K1000 used, I think the more likely scenario for why it has a memo holder is that the original owner applied one of these stick-on holders. Paul1513 18:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The K1000 is a Spotmatic
It seems that nowhere in the article it's stated that the K1000 is a K mount version of the Spotmatic SPII. Bodies looks similar and many part are exchangeable between the cameras. BTW I plan to replace the winding lever on mine by a SPII one that is more ergonomic, but was probably much more expensive to build. Ericd (talk) 20:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, yes and no. The whole K series(K2, KX, KM, and K1000) are all essentially Spotmatics with the K mount. More specifically, the KM is a Spotmatic F, the K1000 is an SP1000, the KX is an improved SP-F, and the K2 is an improved ES-II. In that way the KX can sort of be thought as the Ultimate Spotmatic... along with the 6x7. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevopedia (talk • contribs) 16:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Greatest camera on earth?
Too biased. I own one, but to say it's the greatest is nonsense. Also Pentax made some great camera's before and after the K1000, I mention the spotmatic, the LX and the MX. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.46.18.88 (talk) 23:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I have one and I love it. But the K1000 lacks some very important features : a power switch and a DOF preview button. The KX & the KM are the same thing with more features. So they are greater than the greatest. :-)) Well I love my K1000 but I prefer the Spotmatics a Spotmatic F is mostly the same camera in M42 mount. But you have a DOF preview/power switch button and a better designed film advance lever. Stop down metering is an annoyance but it's the price to pay to you use M42 lenses. And I love M42 because there is a lot excellent M42 lenses that you can also use an almost any camera film or digital with the right adapter. So IMHO the Spotmatic F is also greater than the greatest. Ericd (talk) 00:14, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

The K1000 did not have professional level durability.
In 1983, Modern Photography said: "When we say a camera is rugged, we mean that it's capable of taking a greater-than-average amount of physical abuse without breaking down. When we say a camera is durable we mean that it will tend to last longer than most cameras of its type without breaking down under conditions of average use, or will withstand a greater number of 'cycles of operation' (i.e., film wind and shutter release with film in the camera) while remaining within tolerance." (Anonymous "Too Hot To Handle." p 59. Modern Photography, Volume 47, Number 3; March 1983. ISSN 0026-8240.)

A professional photographer could take 1000 film exposures in one busy workday (double that in the digital era). With an amateur level 50,000 cycle rating, the K1000 was simply not durable or rugged enough to keep up a professional pace for long. (During the 1980s, the professional level Nikon F3 and Canon F-1N were rated at 150,000 and 100,000 abusive cycles, respectively.) Therefore, I have restored phrasing that it was not of professional level durability.

Instead of "durable," the K1000 was "reliable." According to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: "Reliability is the probability that an engineering system will perform its intended function satisfactorily (from the viewpoint of the customer) for its intended life under specified environmental and operating conditions." (Licker, Mark D., publisher. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 9th Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0-07-913665-6. "Reliability, availability, and maintainability," Vol. 15, pp 353-359.) Because of its simplicity, there was little to go wrong at any given moment, making the K1000 pretty reliable – if not abused. Paul1513 (talk) 19:39, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

desilvering of petaprism
lot of talk on how the pentaprism can desilver, but I know nothing about this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:192:4700:1F70:5411:F177:5934:F4CC (talk) 03:40, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Made in Japan?
Someone removed Japan as one of the places the K1000 was made. Weren't some made in Japan? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:16, 21 September 2022 (UTC)