Pentax Super-A

The camera offers fully automatic exposure ("program") mode when coupled with an appropriate Pentax-A series lens.

Unlike the camera's most direct predecessor, the semi-automatic Pentax ME-Super, this model cannot function at 1/125 of a second, or at all, once the batteries have been exhausted.

These receive natural light through a translucent plastic window on the pentaprism housing and can be electrically lit at the press of a button.

Also in the viewfinder, centred, is a split image focus aid surrounded by a microprism ring.

The European camera of the year version(1983) had a small round brass plate on the front lefthand side of the body.