My guess is the *ist is a new series that will eventually replace the MZ/ZX series. IIRC, the MZ/ZX replaced the Z/PZ series and the Z/PZ replaced.....something.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Crippled mount; was Re: Good-bye Pentax (2) > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:35:31 US/Central, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What bothers me, (I am not Boz, and I am not switching to Canon anytime soon) > > is that the film *ist is now the FOURTH entry-level body they've introduced > > with this mount. > > I have a suspicion that there's a translation problem going on here. I > think it may be that the term we've translated to "entry level" may > actually be a term that means "first of a new series entering the > market". > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ > >
