>I seriously doubt they will scavenge the old parts bin. Its probably much
>cheaper to design it from scratch to comply with modern production methods.
>The LX electronics are outdated - parts for it is not manufactured anymore.
>Hence, electronics needs to be redesigned. I also strongly suspect that
>Pentax will beef up the shutter with higher max speed an much faster synch
>speed - almosty universally a must have these days; just look at the Nikon
>FM3a. That means out goes the shutter. If Pentax decide on built-in
>motorized transport then out goes the film transport. Whats left of the
>original? Nothing!
Perhaps Pentax could make the LX successor looked like a jumbo LX (something
like Contax AX which is quite big). Since the "look" is just like the good
old LX, just bigger, it's fair to call it a LX2 even its internal structure
is nothing like the original LX.
regards,
Alan Chan
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