On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:28:42AM +0200, Dario Bonazza wrote: > Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > > >I think Dario had mentioned something about a canned project, the Pentax > >MZ-1. > > It was Paal, not me. > > >Towards the bottom of this the worst webpage ever there is a photo, > >possibly from a brochure: > > > >http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/enzzo1972/2002 > > Thanks for posting it, Kostas. Hmmm... those dials look well oversized, > don't they? However, it looks different from a MZ-3 . . .
I was going to post the link to the picture, but you beat me to it. In my opinion it doesn't really look anything like a MZ series camera; it's far too angular, without any of the smooth curves of the MZ bodies. The pentaprism cover, in particular, looks more like an LX than any of the later bodies, and the control wheels look more like K-series ones. I'd guess it was a very early design, before any of the MZ bodies were released, rather than a prototype for a high-end prosumer MZ body.
