Japan

Pentax

Now part of Ricoh. The K mount from 1975 is still used on current Pentax DSLRs, so manual K-mount lenses mount without an adapter. Film-body repairs go to independent shops.

Pentax kept the K bayonet from the K1000 era through every digital SLR it has made. That continuity keeps old K-mount glass useful and fairly priced. Ricoh no longer services the film bodies; the mechanical ones are simple enough that independent repairers handle them routinely.

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Pentax K1000
The film-school standard. Nothing to break, nothing to learn twice — and priced up by its own reputation.
7.9