Toment Loc: FL, IL

Started with K100D super. Very good camera!

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

Have had several Pentax cameras. Currently K-50. Only one died.
Keep two cameras as working, one main and another small one as a "purse camera" (always with me).
Currently using:
Bought Panasonic Lumix ZMC ZS60 3/1/2017 18 MP 30X zoom. Purse camera. Started shooting in RAW middle of March with both current cameras.
Bought Pentax K-50 in July 2015 Primary camera 16 MP
Formerly used.
Bought Canon A2500 June 2013 secondary camera 16 MP, no viewfinder. Gave away.
Bought Pentax K-X Sept. 2009 Primary camera 10 MP Died then recycled. 2013
Bought Canon A1200 before 11/12/2011, think 10 MP secondary camera (had viewfinder, not common for point and shoot) stopped using because of A2500. May still have, not sure.
Bought Fujifilm Fine Pix S2000 HD before Feb. 2008 Primary camera. Gave away.
Bought Fujifilm Fine Pix S5700 before March 2008 Primary camera. Gave away
Bought Nikon E995 Before April 2002 Primary digital camera 5 MP. Don't remember what happened to it.
Film Cameras
Pentax semi-automatic camera (was a service anniversary gift) Still have somewhere.
Pentax K-1000 Don’t remember year bought. Still have.
First SLR—Canon FLQT? Some time in late 1960's still have.
First 35 mm Camera—Argus C3. Took apart to see how worked after bought SLR.
Polaroid Cameras, at least 2, don't remember what happened to them.
Box Camera, like a Kodak but not. Don't remember what happened to it. Was given to me by my parents sometime in the late 1950's.

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Next year is the 100th birthday of Pentax!

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Pentax forums has a sell/buy and the Pentax forum on Facebook is another place to sell/buy as well as post your images.

Riggson Loc: Tucson, Az

Been shooting Pentax for years and just a couple points to add.
No one has yet mentioned Pentaxforums.com Best resource for all things Pentax.
Also, Ricoh has stated they are supporting the Pentax brand for the foreseeable future so it's not going to disappear (at least not soon.)
There are rumors floating around about some special promotions/events being planned for the 100th anniversary of Pentax next year but the details are being withheld.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I think I did. And appreciate all the comments. Thank you all for the posts, they contradict the feeling that we Pentaxians are really that rare. We just don’t brag about our wonderful camera equipment.

dhowland

I am a Pentax user mainly because my first camera was a K1000 and I had lenses for it that Pentax digital still take. It's been a fortuitous path because the Pentax digital cameras are excellent for the money. I absolutely love the full frame and have a couple of the earlier DSLRs too. Nikon and Canon get all the press and a lot of the consumer attention but Pentax is really super.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Ricoh has no plans to end the Pentax brand because globally, Pentax is a more popular brand than Ricoh. Pentax is for all intents and purposes, Ricoh's crown jewel.

Stoshik Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Don't know Jack about digital Pentax, but back in the late 60s though the 80s (at least where I lived) Pentax and Nikon or Nikkormat were the most bang for the buck 35mm SLRs. I think Olympus was next. No one could afford a Leica or larger format camera. Everyone I knew or shot with one one or the other. The only Canons I recall seeing were in the photographers' boxes at an MLB game or at a football game because they were so recognizable by the white telephotos.

Besperus Loc: Oregon

I would not have any second thoughts about a digital Pentax. The K1 is an excellent SLR. They pioneered mirrorless
With the Q, which at the time was out there all by itself. Support by the public just wasn’t there. Same with the tiny SLR 110 camera, complete with interchangeable
lenses. The K1 is on the verg of being eaten alive by the current rush to compact
mirrorless cameras. But what other camera do you know manufactured today that can use a ten or twenty year old native lens
Without an adapter?

2666loco

It just doesn't matter. If your photos are good and you like them, then your equipment is good. It is how you use your equipment, not the brand name. The photo is from YOU. One time Bert Keppler said in Popular Photography that they care not one whit what equipment you use, when a reader submitted a similar idea.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

That is an excellent point. I have a couple lenses I used on my K1000SE and they fit on my K-x perfectly. Focusing is manual but that is okay, I had to manually focis them on the K1000.

2666loco

I have a Pentax V Spotmeter from 1985. It still has the silver oxide batteries it came with and it works. My first 35mm was a Sears camera that I think was a Pentax. I have toyed with going back to basic photography and set my Nikon D700 FX DSLR on black and white and full manual using the zone system. I learned so many basic concepts from reading and rereading Ansel Adams trilogy of black and white: The Camera, The Negative, and The Print. I did a lot of B&W but haven't printed for 20 years. I look at everything on the computer. I scanned a few of Ansel's photos, and I could not find any settings in Adobe Elements that made the pictures any better. Edward Weston didn't use a meter. His experience was so vast.
Pentax made good equipment. I wanted a Pentax 645 camera for a long time. I'm glad now I never bought it. Digital has made film obsolete I think. All my Nikon F series bodies are now obsolete, and sleep happily in their boxes.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

How about every Canon EF lens made since 1987 on a Canon EOS 5D mk IV body. I have some pretty old Nikkor lenses that work just fine on my Nikon D7200, I believe Nikon still makes that model.

Arch3r51

I have been shooting Pentax since Law Enforcement Survalliance in the mid 1970’s. Now have a K50 and K20 they perform very well. Lenses very affordable and great quality.