Quoting Alan Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- P�l Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pentax have been making pro cameras from about 1968, regardless of what > definition > > you choose for pro-level, so I cannot see why they should stop now. > Pentax have > > labeled at least six different bodies as "pro-grade" since 1968 and they > have sold > > hundreads of thousand, perhaps approaching a million in sales. > > Excluding 645 & 67, the only 2 pro cameras (or systems) I am aware are MX > and LX. > >From what I have read, Spotmatic was an accident. I was not designed or > marketed as > pro cameras, though widely used by commerical shooters at the time.
They did *label* the PZ-1 and PZ-1p as "pro", whether or not anyone agrees with them. I'm not trying to reopen THAT argument (as to whether they really are), but Pal said "Pentax labeled at least six ... " and I think you can easily get there with the medium-format systems, the MX, the LX and these two. I don't recall if they also labelled the MZ-S as pro grade (I didn't pay all that much attention to it.) You might even get to six bodies without the PZ-1(p) -- how many different medium format bodies have there been? ERNR
