{"id":5440,"date":"2012-03-21T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2012-03-20T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T01:34:02","slug":"pentax-espio-mini-uc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5440","title":{"rendered":"Pentax Espio Mini (UC-1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh no, my Pentax Espio Mini has developed a problem.\u00a0 The rewind motor is no longer rewinding the film all the way back after all the frames are exposed.\u00a0\u00a0 The result is that I opened the back after the rewind only to find that the film was still there.\u00a0 I closed it quickly to limit the damage and then manually rewound the film in a dark bag (my backpack).\u00a0 So I think I lost about 4 frames near the beginning of the roll but more worrisom to me is the loss of my camera.\u00a0 I really like this little point and shoot and will have to begin a search for a replacement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what is so appealing about this camera?\u00a0 Well it’s extremely small, it has a fantastic 32mm f3.5 lens with three elements and has an accurate exposure system.\u00a0 The focus on this camera is very accurate with parallax correction in the viewfinder that allows\u00a0framing when\u00a0as close as the\u00a012 inch minimum.\u00a0 I like that extra bit of view the 32mm gives over other cameras like the Olympus Stylus Epic <\/a>\/Konica Big Mini<\/a>\/Leica Mini <\/a>or Yashica T3 <\/a>with their 35mm lenses.\u00a0 And aside from the Olympus it is the smallest of the bunch.<\/p>\n

And now for the images.\u00a0 These are from the previously mentioned light struck roll.<\/p>\n\n\t\t