website... blame Dario... ;-)
Christian Skofteland
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- Original Message -
From: Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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
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
LX = 60 as in 60th anniversary of Asahi Optical
Christian
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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
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
I dunno. I got that off of AOHC's website... blame Dario... ;-)
Christian Skofteland
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- 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
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