Pentax program plus exposure meter - Pentax Program Plus 35mm SLR Camera

Yes, with limitations. The lenses will fit on any Pentax (now Ricoh) digital SLR. You may lose autofocus and/or auto exposure metering.

Contact Eric Hendrickson, the Pentax repair person: http://www.pentaxs.com/index.html
or
http://www.pentaxcamerarepair.com/

have you checked your exposure and aperture? To high an exposure or too large and aperature can affect the picture quality. I have a model like this I think. When you look in the view finder, there is a meter with a meter that, if the batteries are good, should move up when there is too much light, and down when there's not enough. If you can get that meter to the middle, you'll be OK. The closer to the middle that needle is, the better the quality. :)

Why are you using a light meter with a point-and-shoot camera?

It should stop advancing the film when the camera counter is on #1 exposure with or without film.

Use "exposure compensation" (the button with a plus/minus symbol). It allows you to lighten (toward the + side) or darken (toward the - side).

Clean the battery cap and contacts with a pencil eraser including the cap threads.
there are no new parts available for this model Pentax, so a good used part repair could be expensive.
An inexpensive hand held light meter might be the way to go if the cleaning did not work, and the camera is otherwise working good.

I love my Pentax!

Use the exposure mode set to metered manual mode using the [mode] button until the [M] is selected on the far right of the LCD screen.
The [M} is to the right of the [Tv] and [Av] selections.

Also, there is a switch on the camera body where the lens is attached... switch from AF to MF (UP position) (AutoFocus to ManualFocus).

The meter inthe viewfinder will continue to work so that tou can use the built-in meter to assist in your manual configfuration.

Good Luck! Photography is a great hobby and profession!

clean the battery cover and contact with a pencil eraser making sure the cap threads are also clean.
this is a fairly expensive repair if the meter or circuit board needs replacing ( no new parts are available ).
if the meter still does not work, and the K1000 is in good working order buy a inexpensive hand held light meter.

Yes, the Pentax ME Super has a built-in light meter. It is used by the ME Super in order to determine the correct exposure settings when the camera is used in the "A" (Autoexposure) & "AV" (Aperture-priority) exposure modes.

I don't mean to insult you, but have you tried new batteries?

Sometimes the meter fails when the batteries don't have enough juice.

Take care & Happy Imaging!
Glen
:)