>>> Did the Kmount get its name from the K series cameras? >>> KX, K2, K2DMD.
>> I don't know. The K mount was introduced with the KM, the KX, >> and the K2. But, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" > Well there was a Pentax "K" that was a screw mount camera, wasn't > it? True, enough - I think it was the third Pentax body (not counting the pre-Pentax Asahiflex bodies), after the AP and the S. However, I never really thought there was ever any connection between the K (circa 1960, perhaps) and the K-mount bodies and lenses (1975). Fred, K1FW
