{"id":17534,"date":"2016-10-30T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17534"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:42:04","slug":"pentax-spii-with-kodak-ultra-gold-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17534","title":{"rendered":"Pentax SPII with Kodak Ultra Gold 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-18777\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18777\" alt=\"SpotmaticII-7269\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SpotmaticII-7269-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pentax SPII or Spotmatic II is a well built mechanical SLR and because it uses the ubiquitous M42 thread for its lens mount there are a multitude of old lenses that can be used with it.\u00a0 You could try to find a solution for the fact that it originally used 1.35V mercury cell batteries including using newer 1.5V silver batteries\u00a0but I personally don&#8217;t even bother with a battery. \u00a0With its completely mechanical shutter\u00a0you\u00a0can\u00a0measure with a hand held meter or digital camera and then just set the aperture and shutter speed as needed.<\/p>\n<p>The 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height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_012-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_012-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_012-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_012.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"frame-outer  small attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\"><span><span><span><span><a href='http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?attachment_id=17538'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" 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src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_017-150x98.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_017-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_017-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SpotmaticSPII_KodakUltraGold400_Oct2015_017.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"frame-outer  small attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\"><span><span><span><span><a href='http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?attachment_id=17541'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" 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