Asahi Pentax K2 – Silver

The Pentax K2 was the flagship model of the camera trio Pentax introduced in 1975 featuring the new K lens mount developed for Zeiss in a joint venture never to really materialise. The two others were the KX and the KM. A year later the Pentax K1000 was added, the forever-popular mechanical camera. Taking full advantage of the new opportunities, they all have full aperture TTL exposure metering with a black indicator needle visible to the right in the finder. K2 features aperture priority automatic exposure, selected by the accordingly marked shutter speed dial position. The camera selects the proper shutter speed between 1/1000th and 8 seconds when the shutter release is depressed. Other notable features on the K2 are the mirror lockup, and that the shutter speeds from 1/125 sec. to 1/1000 sec. and ‘B’ works without battery power.