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The BEST Point-and-Shoot Camera for Street Photography
Jan 16, 2020
Today, Matt walks us through his favorite point-and-shoot camera, the Pentax ESPIO 140V. He'll show some of the benefits and perks of this camera and also reveals his shoe-box collection of photos and old cameras! WATCH NEXT: How to Load the Hasselblad 500c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbXFmhlvMs Get 120 film here: https://fltrgr.de/120filmsque (affiliate link) --- Read more here: https://filtergrade.com/category/photography/film-photography/ Browse what's new on FilterGrade: https://fltrgr.de/whatsnew Keep up with Matt's work! - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matt_moloney/ - Website: http://mjmolo.com/
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what's up everybody might hear from
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filter grade and today we're gonna be
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talking about one of my favorite
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point-and-shoot film cameras for street
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photography which is the Pentax SPO 140
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feet so this camera is good for many
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reasons and I've tried a lot of
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different cameras for street photography
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going from SLR to medium format and even
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trying out different point shoots but
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for me this has always been my go-to
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because of three main reasons which are
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the gist of how small it is you can
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always have it in your back pocket in
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your backpack wherever you go all you
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need to do is keep one roll of film with
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you in this camera and you're set the
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second being just because of how
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discreet and small it is you can also
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get really good shots where people might
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not even know that you're taking their
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photo and you can just get more raw
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Canon shots especially when you're
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shooting in the city and then third is
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just the flash on this camera I tell
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people when I'm shooting that it's like
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a Polaroid because the flash is super
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bright and for me that really like helps
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out especially at nighttime where when
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you don't have enough light to be
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working with or just for photos where
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you want kind of more more exposed look
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I think that really helps out and you
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don't even have to carry like an extra
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flash to mount on top or anything like
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that
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so for those three reasons this is my
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go-to for street photography let's go
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ahead and take a look at some of the
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photos I've taken with it okay so
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looking at some of the photos what are
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the best ways for me to look at my
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photos and kind of get a feel for what
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I've been shooting over the past you
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know week or so or month or so or
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however long ago it's been since I shot
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that particularly roll I'd like to go
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ahead and print them out and look at
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them in kind of like a physical format I
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think this is better than if you were to
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look at them on the computer
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scrolling through Lightroom catalogs or
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just you know in your folders throughout
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your computer I think it can get a
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little bit daunting and you kind of just
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see your photos and don't think much of
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it but when you can when you can compare
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to side by side
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I think that kind of brings a more
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artistic perspective into it for you as
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a photographer and I think it helps you
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determine you know what are the right
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decisions that you need to make more of
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and what are the things that you slacked
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on or you didn't do well enough that you
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could pick up on so for me like I said I
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always like to print my photos out and
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then just keeping my shoebox and
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especially when I'm streaming with my
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point shoot actually some rolls I don't
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have printed out just because of the
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subject matter and I don't have the
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money to do it or whatever the case may
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be but for me I always try to do it when
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I'm using my Pentax I even have my old
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pen taxes and in my box that I have all
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my point and shoot photos from and like
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this to me is just a great way and a
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great life almost it's just like just
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graveyard of my other cameras but to me
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I love it because it's just just history
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of what I've shot and where I've been
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and I remember this camera I had for the
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longest time this was my first Pentax
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point shoot camera and I had just duct
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taped by the battery for the longest
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time just trying to let it hold on and
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just do whatever it could so that it
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would keep working and I finally said
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all right I can't deal with this anymore
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and the battery actually was just like
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stopping working so I wanted why don't
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even bought a new one but for me yeah
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this is my favorite point shoot camera
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and I'll always look when this one
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breaks I'm gonna replace it again for
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sure because for me it just is the
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easiest
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and most reliable and for me it's also
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the most affordable I know online you
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can get like a contacts t3 or t4 or
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whatever the latest one is and they're
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good yes and they have really great
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flashes and they're picture-perfect but
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I can't spend you know a thousand or two
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thousand on a point-and-shoot and for me
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this is like the best for the price I
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think I got this the last time on ebay
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for fifty dollars you can get the first
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one I found at a vintage camera store
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for about five dollars so you can it
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just depends on where you're getting it
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and to me they've always been super
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reliable there's always the same camera
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no matter whether it's five dollars or
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or fifty so just I would always just say
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this is as comparable than the contacts
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or the yashuko t for another camera
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that's super expensive and it's just as
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comparable so I would say why waste your
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money when you can get something a lot
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less expensive so let's go ahead and
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look at some of the photos that I've
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taken with my Pentax
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so first this is just a photo from New
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York that I took it's just trains you
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know nothing too special these were some
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where I was just learning a little bit
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more about the camera and then there's
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some street photos I had taken in
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Dorchester about a year ago this is
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where I live in my neighborhood I just
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like having my point-and-shoot so that I
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can take it no matter where I'm at
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whatever I see if I think it's
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interesting just pull it out and take a
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picture of it this is one of my friends
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in the neighborhood his name is Danny he
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hangs out on Dorchester Avenue a street
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nearby all the time so
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well combined just have my point you
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with me I said hey let me take your
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picture he was he was all about it and
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then there's some more this was when I
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was in California like I said I always
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just keep my point shoot on me so I was
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just walking by I see a knife scene and
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just kind of frame it up a little bit
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but nothing too too special and just
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take the shot this is in Puerto Rico
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head this this is a photo I wanted to
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use to touch upon with flash because
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this was taken in the middle of the
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night at a probably at midnight in
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Puerto Rico and we were just walking
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around in our sock pool scene and I
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thought this is this is really what you
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see in Puerto Rico wherever you go this
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kind of barbed wire and I thought it
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would look really rugged especially at
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night with the flash so I took the photo
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and when I printed it out I really liked
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how bright the flash was because it kind
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of adds a lot of noise and just grunge
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in like texture to the photo and then
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this is a photo of offset and car DB
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that my brother actually kind of random
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has stumbled upon we were in New York
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and we were walking around downtown and
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we actually just ran into a fashion show
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for New York Fashion Week
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and we kind of stumbled in and walked in
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as paparazzi along the street and we
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just got a few good photos and this was
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just another case of like me being
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fortunate for having my point shoot on
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me especially with the flash at
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nighttime I needed that to be able to
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get you know at least some kind of some
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kind of shot and then these are just a
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few others this is from California and
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again it's just no matter when you're at
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the beach you're in the city whatever
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you're trying to do you're able to have
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the camera in your pocket and
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shoot and although the camera is it
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waterproof is you know durable to water
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I've taken it and I've gone in the ocean
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with it not underwater obviously but
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it's gotten splashed on it's not spilled
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on and things like that it's it's always
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remained consistent reliable versatile
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etc it's just a great camera all around
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so that's about it for the Pentax SPO
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one for TV if you have any questions go
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ahead and leave them below in the
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comments and thanks for watching have a
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good one