Re: Whatever happened to Pentax?

I have a Spotmatic SPII -- still in good working order. It's a classic, but

in spite of the catchy name, it only measures some sort of center-weighted

average. Don't believe that the Spotmatic, or even its early 1980's 
successors (like the ME Super that I also have)  ever did any more than 
that. On the other hand, film is a lot more tolerant of overexposure than 
digital, so spot measuring for highlights was not as big a deal as it is 
now...


"Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Well, sort of.  If my memory isn't too fuzzy, I think that they "said" 
> they were going to make the first SLR with spot metering -- the
Spotmatic. 
> Pentax made a pre-production model according to its claims, but when it 
> hit production the spot sensoring turned out to be a couple of sensors 
> that really only read an average of the light in the viewfinder.  I'm
not 
> sure if they later modified the spotmatic to actually use spot metering,

> or whether one of the other giants got it into production first.