Pentax Spotmatic F
You can think of the Spotmatic F as the "Spotmatic Final." Released in 1973, it represents the culmination of the Spotmatic line of cameras. There was only one other Spotmatic to come along, before the advent of the K-mount cameras, the stripped-down Spotmatic 1000 of 1974.
Pentax really didn't have too much to improve upon by the time they got to the end of their Spotmatic series. The Spotmatic F retains all the excellence of the Pentax Spotmatic II with minor improvements; you won't find anything earth-shatteringly new in this camera. The most prominent of these upgrades is the Spotmatic F's ability to meter full aperture with the SMC Takumar lenses that Pentax had recently introduced. The new SMC Takumars had little tabs in the lens mount that communicated aperture info to the camera's meter, thus, no longer requiring stop-down metering... though, this was still necessary to do with the older Pentax lenses, even on the Spotmatic F.
In short, the Spotmatic F can be summed up by the saying, "If it ain't broke, make it a little bit better," and that's exactly what Pentax did.
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