Keith Whaley posted: > > I thought the MX review was very interesting too, but what surprises > me ~ in light of what the reviewer said about the KX ~ is that you HAD > a KX and didn't like it! > After reading Lon Williamson's review, I thought I just might want to > have one! Now I wonder. What did I miss? > Why don't/didn't you like the KX? > I seem to recall he said it was like a pre-LX design...that sounded > pretty interesting to me. > > I do have an MX body, and I just got it a few days ago, but haven't > had time to really wring it out. > I am really looking forward to road-testing it, however. > > Your thoughts on the KX?
In the first place, when I bought the KX it had been several years since I'd last owned a K1000 and my Pentax bodies since then had all been smaller. Found I wasn't that comfortable going back to the big bodies. Secondly, although I understand this doesn't bother many people, I found that having to keep the winding lever in a stand-off position to use the meter was a distraction -- I'd never owned a camera with that requirement before. It wasn't that there was anything *wrong* with the camera; just one of those subtle handling not-quite-"me" issues that sometimes present themselves and make the difference between a camera you happily reach for and use, and the one on the shelf you reach past to get to the one you like using. So I bought the LX and as soon as I'd established that the LX was working properly, sold the KX to partially offset the investment in the LX.
