Customer Reviews

Pentax ZX-60 Date w/28-90mm Lens Kit

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The camera started showing problems two weeks into use. The winding mechanism would not rewind 36 exp rolls, then 24 exp rolls, then it wouldn't wind the film past the 4th or 5th exp on a fresh roll, and at the end, it wouldn't even spool up a fresh roll.

It took pretty good pictures, I would say, but I'm not experienced at judging pictures. They were in focus and the exposure times got the balance between light and dark right. The film winding mechanism was a little loud for my taste.

On the up side, because of its almost entirely plastic construction (I think the lens mount is plastic as well) the camera was light and easy to carry. On the down side, plastic obviously breaks quicker than metal. The auto-focus was pretty quick and if you understood where to point the lens, it was also correct.

At the end of the day, for an amateur SLR that cost around a quarter of a thousand (including lens kit and bag), it's absolutely unacceptable that it should break so quickly. Pentax had better rethink their strategy.

Product was exactly as expected and arrived very promptly! Would definitely buy from this seller again!

When my daughter enrolled into a photography class in college, she needed a film SLR. Since we've went all digital long time ago, I was faced with a problem of buying a "new" film camera. Our main camera is Pentax K10d DSLR and I wanted to find a film Pentax SLR, which could work with our existing Pentax lenses. It turned out that this ZX-60 uses the same mount and can take advantage of long focus digital lenses (lenses below 40mm yield too much vigneting). So, I bought a used camera from one of Amazon sellers and it came in really good condition--everything works and the camera takes great pictures. Unlike prosumer grade DSLRs, programming of ZX-60 is quite intuitive, while offering both fully automatic as well as manual modes.

I think this is the ideal starter camera for a photo student that needs to work with film. The camera is light and easy to handle. I like the picture quality, too.