I have a sales brochure somewhere from the KM, KX, K2 introduction. They are named for the K-mount. The mount and cameras were introduced at the same time. Folks, this was in the screwmount era. There were no cameras that would take a new K-mount lens until these! It was a really radical switch for Pentax given all the investment and user base they had in screwmount cameras.
Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I always thought the K mount name came from the "shape" the mount makes, > kind of like when you make a K turn in a car - the mount itself is the > back of the K, and the points where the lens enters and ends up make the > outer points of the K. But maybe I just thought about it too much. :)
