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Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic
When
the
Pentax
Spotmatic
was
in-
troduced
to
the
public
,
at
the
1960
Photokina,
the
photographic
world's
fair
in
Cologne,
Germany,
it
attract-
ed
immediate
and
keen
attention.
Not
available for
purchase
at
that
time,
it
was a model
of
the
advanced
features
and
design
that
would
be
incorporated
into
cameras
of
the
future.
Four
years
of
extensive research,
exhaustive
experiments
and
inten-
sive
testing
followed before
it
be-
came
available
to
serious
amateur
and
professional
photographers
in
late
1964.
With
its
unique
behind-the-Iens
exposure
meter
of
entirely
new
de-
sign,
the
Honeywell
Pentax
Spot-
matic
is now more
than
just
another
camera
. . .
it
is a
new
concept
in
photography.
Hidden
within
the
camera
body,
its
through-the-Iens
meter
utilizes
two
highly sensitive
Cadmium
Sul-
fide sensors
to
accurately
measure
light
seen
by
the
camera's
lens
as
it
is
reflected from
the
subject
being
photographed.
Therefore,
by
measur-
ing
the
light
as
it
passes
through
the
lens
and
matching
the
exposure
needle
as
seen
through
the
view-
finder,
you
can
be assured
of
properly
expo!led
pictures
under
all
but
the
most
impossible lighting conditions.
Macro-
or
microphotography,
pic-
tures
with
telephoto
lenses
or
with
filters
. . .
the
Honeywell
Pentax
Spotmatic
will give
you
correctly
exposed
photographs
without
the
use
of
external
meters
or
the
need for
cumbersome, time-consuming calcu-
lations!
The
Spotmatic
may
also be
set
manually
the
same
as
any
other
quality
35mm
camera
if
special light-
ing
or
selective focus effects
are
de-
sired.
Just
leave
the
exposure
meter
switch
in
its
OFF
position
and
select
the
f/
stop
and
speed
settings
for
the
required
effect.
The
traditional
classic design
and
simple elegance associated
with
ear-
lier models
of
the
famous
Pentax
have
been
retained
in
the
Spotmatic
despite
the
incorporation
of
many
highly
advanced
features.
Meticu-
lously
constructed
by
master
crafts-
men,
the
Pentax
cameras
remain
the
standard
of
excellence
and
precision
in
the
world
of
35mm
single-Iens-
reflex cameras.
You will find
the
Honeywell Pen·
tax
Spotmatic even more versatile
than
the
famous
Pentax
H3v.
Its
new
50mm f/1.4 and 55mm f/1.8 Super.
Takumar
lenses
with
completely au-
tomatic diaphragm will satisfy
the
demands of even
the
most critical
professional. Like
the
Hia
and H3v,
the
Honeywell
Pentax
Spotmatic has
a 42mm threaded lens mount
that
accepts
any
of
the
superb
Takumar
lenses from
the
ultra-wide·angle
I8mm
Takumar
to
the
super-tele-
photo
IOOOmm
Takumar
.