William wrote: I never noticed that they had a commitmant to pro level 35mm. When did this happen? Are you talking about that time in 1980? That was just one camera, not a commitmant. They do make some mighty nice lenses though.
REPLY: Their "commitment seems as strong as the commitment they've shown for medium format; continue with the same product forever. Apart from the one camera body they did, and still do, offer a remarkable number of "professional" lenses. At a certain point in the 80's Pentax offered about 70 lenses the vast majority of them targeted towards advanced users. You could really turn the argument on the head, at least based on lens selection, that Pentax do not target the entry level market as all other major camera manufacturers offer a more complet line of worthless, cheap zoom lenses! P�l
