page_title: Pentax cameras
section_title: MZ/ZX Series
hierarchical_section_title: Pentax cameras / K Mount cameras / MZ/ZX Series
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Анатолий Григорьевич Чайко, переславский фотограф, фотографирует на открытии выставки рисунков Рериха в культурном центре «Славич».
context_page_description: and its predecessors, Pentax Corporation and Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.
  It covers from the first "Asahiflex" models in 1952 and their successor, the pivotal "Asahi Pentax" single-lens reflex camera, to the present time.
context_section_description: This innovative series brought the "small and light" concept back from previous generation manual focus cameras. This series known as MZ models elsewhere were named ZX models in the USA except MZ-S, the MZ-5 being known as the ZX-5 in the USA.  The exception to this rule was the MZ-6 which was known as the ZX-L in the USA. Models shown on the same row are model replacements/upgrades in the range, so the MZ-10 was replaced by the MZ-7 which was subsequently replaced by the MZ-6.
  All members of this series are compact autofocus SLRs except the MZ-M. The flagship model in this series is the MZ-S which body materials are metal, faster film drive and higher flash sync speed. Only MZ-S and MZ-6 are compatible with newly introduced P-TTL flash system. Both models can control remote flash wirelessly by popup flash commander mode in normal or high-speed flash sync.
  SAFOX IV/V autofocus module are integrated into this series.
  Models which were also backward compatible with both the KA and K mounts:
  MZ-S (Flagship model)
  MZ-3
  MZ-5 MZ-5n
  MZ-10 MZ-7 MZ-6/ZX-L
  MZ-M (manual focus version and no built in flash)
  Models which were backward compatible with the KA mount but not the K mount:
  MZ50 MZ30
  MZ60
caption: A photographer holds a Pentax MZ-5n with Metz flashlight
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