Re: PMA News: Pentax ist, new Lenses and Optio 450 and 550

[Bruce Rubenstein]

This might only be the designation in Japan. Many camera companies seem to give cute names to cameras for the home market and then give it an alpha-numeric model designation for the rest of the world.

BR

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LOL. But the name sucks indeed. We all know that the asterisk is a placeholder. If you replace it with a "M", the you have the German word for dung or trash... =:-]