Pentax Spotmatic SPII
With the introduction of the Pentax Spotmatic SPII, in 1971, Asahi chose a simple and direct course of action to produce a successor to their immensely successful Pentax Spotmatic. They decided to stick to the winning formula, only making small, incremental improvements. The result in the Spotmatic SPII is a camera that is everything that made the Spotmatic so good, plus a couple small add-ons. The SPII is just as rugged, just as mechanical, just as reliable, and just as sublimely engineered. The tweaks performed involved giving the camera a permanent hot shoe and expanding its ISO range up to 3200. A new switch was added to change flash synchronization from FP (flash powder/bulb) to X (electronic), via a dial under the rewind lever. In modern times, this switch has lost most of its use, but in the 1970s this was still a relevant feature. One of the most influential new features on the SPII had nothing to do with camera function at all, it involved the introduction of the SMC line of lenses, released alongside the camera.
Pentax didn't go out on any innovative limbs with the SPII, instead, they doubled down on a camera everyone already knew was excellent, making it just slightly more excellent. All of this is to say that bringing a Spotmatic SPII into your camera collection is certainly a worthy investment.
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