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Just over 3 years ago in 2013 I took a photo of my entire collection of Olympus cameras both classic film cameras and modern digital cameras (accessories aren't included in these shots!):

 

www.flickr.com/photos/aspectsoflight/8440058723/

 

A year or two after taking that shot I sold a lot of my Pentax digital stuff as I moved to a compact system camera system... all I kept were my Pentax K-7 and my 3 DA Ltd lenses.

 

But then last christmas I saw an offer on the Pentax K-3ii that was very tempting... I tried to resist... but I failed... miserably!! Since getting the K-3ii I've also replaced most of the Pentax lenses I sold and added some of new ones too.

 

The only cameras from the 2013 shot that is missing (I think!) is my lovely Pentax MS-3 and which spontaneously gave up the ghost a few months ago... and the MZ-50 (which I don't think has ever worked... it came twith the FA 28-70mm). Pentax had several really lovely cameras in the MZ series, but my own experience, plus what I've read on the internet, suggest they were/are spectacularly unreliable!!!

 

I've replaced the MZ-3 with an MZ-S which I hope will be more reliable than your average MZ camera!

 

So, from top to bottom and left to right:

 

MZ-S (with FA 28-70mm), Z-1 (with F 50mm f1.7), Super A (with A 50mm f1.2), Auto 110 with 24mm f2.8)

 

MX (with M 50mm f1.4), ME Super (with M 40mm f2.8), Spotmatic (with SMC Takumar 55mm f1.8), *ist (with FA 28-80mm)

 

K-3ii (with DA 16-45mm f4), K-01 (with DA XS 40mm f2.8), DA Ltd 21mm f3.2, DA Ltd 15mm f4, DA Ltd 70mm f2.4, 110 50mm f2.8, 110 20-40mm f2.8, 110 18mm f2.8

 

Takumar 200mm f4, DA 55-300mm WR f4-5.8, F 100mm Macro f2.8, F 28mm f2.8, DA 12-24mm f4, D FA 100mm Macro WR f2.8, A 28-80mm f3.5-4.5 (SMC version not the Takumar version)

Done