Re: unique K2

2004-03-12 Thread Andre Langevin
website... blame Dario... ;-) Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:06 PM Subject: Re: unique K2 They must have settled on this before the 1975 KX was launched. The 1980 LX

unique K2

2004-03-11 Thread edwin
Somebody pointed out that the K2 was quite different from the rest of the K series, or for that matter from anything else pentax ever made, in terms of control layout and such. I've been looking over my new KX in comparison to the K2 and Spot F and it's got me thinking. The KM and KX are pretty

Re: unique K2

2004-03-11 Thread Andre Langevin
The K2 looks like it was also based on Spotmatic technology (with the mirror-up lever in the same spot as the old meter-on, for example) but appears to be aiming at something different. I'd suggest that that something different was the Nikon Nikkormat EL, which was introduced a few years earlier

Re: unique K2

2004-03-11 Thread Christian
LX = 60 as in 60th anniversary of Asahi Optical Christian - Original Message - From: Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also wonder if X as in KX, ZX-M, etc, has been used in any consistant nomenclature sense. It could stand for old fashioned, essentially. I'd argue for mechanical

Re: unique K2

2004-03-11 Thread Andre Langevin
They must have settled on this before the 1975 KX was launched. The1980 LX was probably developped over a period of at least 5 years... Andre LX = 60 as in 60th anniversary of Asahi Optical Maybe X just makes a cool graphical statement, with the LX being a happy coincidence William

Re: unique K2

2004-03-11 Thread Christian Skofteland
I dunno. I got that off of AOHC's website... blame Dario... ;-) Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:06 PM Subject: Re: unique K2 They must have settled