The best camera I ever owned. A fully manual slice of heaven. I had it from about 1979 until the summer of 1986 when it got stolen in Seattle when the apartment I was living in got broken into. I still have the flash for it and the Pentax ME I got as a replacement (a mistake - the K1000 was far superior), my last film camera.
Me too, only my K1000 didn’t get stolen, it got wiped out by a shot of seawater from the spout at Depot Bay, Oregon. I got a little too close, and it never really recovered. Replaced mine with an ME too, which I used, less and less over time, up until I got my K100D a couple years ago. Always had a thing for Pentax.
My favorite camera ever, which was taken from me in 1981 (maybe 82) when the store I was working at (Electronics Boutique, which later became Games and Gadgets which later became EB Games) was having a huge Dungeons and Dragon event and I was supposed to take pictures but two minutes after I put my camera down to help someone, it was gone forever. A nerd stole my beloved camera.
I had the K1000’s big brother, the Super ME. It was my Dad’s. I still have it, but the light meter’s dead, so it’s not much of a camera at this point…
