I think you're right, Bill. Nikon's F system was around pre-Spotmatic. There were a few PJ's that used Spotmatics, but not many. And I don't think there was anything like a mass exodus from Pentax to Nikon.
I think as well that the whole "pros didn't use Pentax because they couldn't change lenses fast enough" is wrong. Most pros rarely changed lenses in the field anyway. That's why they had 2 or 3 bodies hanging around their necks. Often a Leica M3 with a 35mm, and a Nikon F with a 90mm, and maybe another Nikon body with either a 50mm or a 135mm (depending on the job). regards, frank William Robb wrote: > Actually, photojournalists who had previously used Leica discovered Nikon > during the American occupation of Japan, and into the Korean war. > Pentax was never in the picture. > > William Robb -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
