The Film Retriever

  Small and beautiful  Ah, another short review of a camera - following the first impressions of shooting the Olympus 35ED, I decided to put a film to another newcomer in my collection - the Pentax MV-1. I found this camera online, came with the 50f/2 but had signs of battery corrosion although seller argued that it works well. For £14 plus delivery (£17 in total) I decided to take the risk and honestly I have been lucky. The MV-1 is part of the budget series of ME clones that Pentax offered during the late 1970s. There is the plain MV and the later MG also, all with some incremental improvements over the previous model but never quite up to ME/ME-Super level. Personally, I had much better luck with the plain ME rather than the ME-Super: almost every ME-Super I came across was malfunctioning in some way or another. The top is rather Spartan. And so is the viewfinder. In the case of MV-1 Vs ME both the cameras have similar dimensions but differ greatly in terms of features: the...