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Pentax 6×7 / 67 vs Pentax K1000

Every spec below is quoted from the makers' official pages — where a figure isn't published we say so rather than guess. Sizes are drawn at true relative scale from published dimensions, and the bag-fit row is computed against our measured bag catalog.

The 3 biggest published differences

Weight (body): the K1000 leads at 620 g vs the Pentax 6x7's 1760 g.
Type: Pentax 6x7 has Medium-format SLR; K1000 has 35mm SLR.
Format: Pentax 6x7 has 120 (6×7); K1000 has 35mm.

	Pentax 6x7 Pentax 6x7 mount	K1000 Pentax K
Overview
Type	Medium-format SLR	35mm SLR
Format	120 (6×7)	35mm
Lens mount	Pentax smc67 bayonet mount (internal and external bayonets)	Pentax K
Released	1969–1989 (original 6×7, pre-"67" rename)	1976-1997
Film camera
Film format	120 (6×7)	35mm
Metering	none built-in (optional TTL metering pentaprism finder)	CdS TTL average metering (open-aperture, match-needle)
Shutter	Mechanical horizontal cloth focal-plane shutter	Horizontal-travel, rubberized silk cloth focal-plane shutter, mechanical
Shutter speeds	1 sec – 1/1000 sec, X-sync 1/30 sec	B, 1 sec to 1/1000 sec; flash X-sync 1/60 sec
Battery	none required for the mechanical shutter itself (4x LR44/SR44 or 1x 4SR44 battery only needed if the optional TTL metering finder is fitted)	1x LR44/SR44 1.5V (meter only; camera fires all speeds without battery)
Body & Handling
Dimensions (W×H×D)	177 × 152 × 91 mm	143 × 91.4 × 48 mm
Weight (body)	1760 g	620 g
Weather sealing	—, not published	—, not published
Shutter durability	—, not published	—, not published
Price
Launch price	—, not published	—, not published
Size, to scale
Front view, drawn at the same scale from each maker's published W×H (mm).
Smallest bag that fits
Body	WANDRD Essential Camera Cube (for PRVKE 21) Fits body only · View at WANDRD	Think Tank Mirrorless Mover 20 V2 Fits body only · View at B&H Photo Video

Sources

official · Pentax 6x7 specifications: Photoethnography.com Classic Camera DB, "Technical Details" table (secondary compilation citing period technical specs, NOT a directly-sighted original Pentax manual page — the original manual PDFs at butkus.org/cameramanuals.org are scanned images with no extractable/OCR'd text, so this could not be independently verified against the primary document) · accessed 2026-07-10

“Dimensions and weight: 177x101x91mm 1.29kg w/o finder; 177x152x91mm 1.76kg w/ TTL finder [row for "6x7" model, 1969]”

official · K1000 specifications: Wikipedia (figures consistent with widely-cited manual dimensions; original manual PDFs at butkus.org/cameramanuals.org/ManualsLib are scanned images with no extractable text, and no official Pentax/Ricoh museum spec page could be located) · accessed 2026-07-10

“It is 91.4 millimetres (3.6 inches) tall, 143 mm (5.6 in) wide, and 48 mm (1.9 in) deep, and weighs 620 grams (21.9 ounces).”

Pentax 6x7 dimensions carry medium confidence (archived-source caveat on its fit page).

K1000 dimensions carry medium confidence (archived-source caveat on its fit page).

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Spec values are the manufacturers' published figures, compared factually — we don't rank cameras. Fit verdicts are planning estimates from published interior dimensions, not guarantees. See methodology.

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