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Manufacturer description #1

Introducing the Pentax Super Program and the state of the art now.

A lot of people who bought a programmed camera already are about to discover they jumped the gun. Because among all the cameras that call themselves programmed cameras, the new Pentax Super Program is the most advanced.

It's both beginner-simple and a challenge to professionals. In Program mode, you only have to focus and fire. Yet the most creative photographer might never outreach this camera's capabilities.

More automation than any camera in its class.

Programmed: The Pentax Super Program sets the precise combination of aperture and shutter speed automatically with the push of one button.

Aperture Priority: You set the aperture and control depth of field on the most important part of your picture. The Pentax Super Program sets the right shutter speed.

Shutter Priority: You set the shutter speed, and the Super Program sets the aperture. You have all the control you need to stop a race car or a hummingbird's wings.

Shoot at will.

No programmed camera gives you more ways to do it. To the Pentax Super Program's three automatic modes, add three more. Full metered manual and two kinds of autoflash.

Two automatic flash modes.

Attach any of the Pentax dedicated TTL auto flash units to the Super program and select from two autoflash modes.

Program Dedicated Flash: In the Program mode, the camera will automatically select the proper shutter speed and aperture, and automatically control flash output.

TTL Flash: Set the camera in Aperture Priority mode and the precise amount of flash needed is metered at the film plane during exposure. This allows you to select any aperture in the flash range and control depth of field in autoflash pictures.

Oh, the extras.

The new Pentax Super Program not only gives you more auto-exposure modes than any camera in its class, it also gives you manual control of all automated functions, for complete creative control. It gives you f-stop and shutter information via an LCD readout inside the viewfinder. Outside, on top of the camera, there's another LCD readout that gives you the shutter speed.

You get a shutter speed twice as fast as any camera in its class, at 1/2000 sec. Faster flash sync, at a 1/125 sec. There's even a button to brighten the viewfinder display in low light situations, and a depth-of-field preview, features some other manufacturers forgot.

Get with the program.

Wide angle to zoom, there's a full complement of new A-Series lenses for the Pentax Super Program. Or, use any of over 40 Pentax SMC lenses and work them to their fullest capabilities.

Add a digital data back. Infrared remote control. An auto winder or motor drive.

Manufacturer description #2

TYPE: 35mm SLR camera with multi-mode automatic exposure controls, electronically-controlled focal plane shutter, and open-aperture center-weighted Through-The-Lens metering

SIX EXPOSURE CONTROL MODES: Programmed AE, Aperture-priority AE, Shutter-priority AE, Metered Manual, TTL Auto Flash, and Programmed Auto Flash mode

EXPOSURE CONTROL MODE SETTING: By using combinations of settings on shutter dial and aperture ring of "A" series lenses

FILM: 35mm film

FORMAT: 24 x 36mm

LENS MOUNT: Pentax KA Bayonet (A Pentax K bayonet mount with electrical contact)

SHUTTER: Seiko MFC-E3 vertical-run metal focal-plane shutter, automatic exposure and manual settings electronically-controlled speeds from 15 to 1/2000 sec., 1/125 sec., and B. Electro-magnetic shutter release with release button lock

EXPOSURE INDICATION IN VIEWFINDER: Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). Automatic and manual shutter speeds, automatically set lens apertures, exposure factor warning, shutter-speed setting error warning, battery life warning, and Programmed AE indication (P). LCD window illumination

EXTERNAL INDICATION: Automatic and manual shutter speeds, Programmed AE indication (P) and shutter cocked indicator

FLASH SYNCHRONIZATION: Hot shoe (X-synch contact, dedicated flash contacts), X-sync at 1/125 sec.

DEDICATED AUTOMATIC FLASH COUPLING: Automatic setting of 1/125 sec. synch speed with dedicated automatic flash units. TTL-automatic flash control provides film-plane metering. Slower than 1/125 sec. synch flash photography is possible at Manual mode setting

SELF-TIMER: Electronically-controlled, delay time indication by flashing lamp and electronic buzzer, approx. 12 sec. delay time, possible to cancel at any time; initiate process by pressing shutter release button

VIEWFINDER: Silver-coated pentaprism finder with split-image/microprism focusing screen; shows 92% of the picture area, 0.82X magnification with 50mm lens at infinity. -1.1 Diopter eyepiece

MIRROR: Back-swing type instant-return mirror

FILM LOADING: Magic-needle loading

FILM TRANSPORT: Single-stroke, rapid wind lever with 135° throw and 30° standoff angle; LCD shutter cocked indicator; film advance and rewind indicator window. Accepts Winder ME II, Motor Drive A

EXPOSURE COUNTER: Additive type, automatic resetting. Automatically sets shutter-speed at 1/1000 sec. up to "0" frame on the counter when shutter dial is set at AUTO or M

FILM REWIND: Crank type

EXPOSURE METERING: Open aperture, Through-The-Lens, center-weighted, average area metering system with GPD cell. Film-plane Metering for dedicated automatic electronic flashes

METERING RANGE: EV 1 (f/1.4, 1 sec) ~ EV 19 (f/16, 1/2000 sec. or f/22, 1/1000 sec.) with 50mm f/1.4 lens and ASA/ISO 100 film

ASA/ISO RANGE: 6-3200

EXPOSURE COMPENSATION: Compensation dial indexed at 4X, 2X, 1X, 1/2X and 1/4X

DEPTH-OF-FIELD PREVIEW: Via depth-of-field preview lever when aperture set manually

POWER SOURCE: Two 1.5V alkaline or silver-oxide batteries, or one 3V lithium battery

METERING CIRCUIT MAIN SWITCH: Switched on by shutter release button and remains on for about 30 sec., shut-off by built-in timer

BATTERY WARNING: When batteries grow weak, LCD alternately flashes exposure designations and 'ooo' sign. When batteries exhausted, LCDs go blank and shutter locks

BACK COVER: Standard camera back with spring catch, built-in memo holder/grip, fully interchangeable with Dial Data ME and Digital Data M

Pentax super A special editions (1)

• Pentax super A "European camera of the year 1983" - 1983

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