And these cheapo zoom lenses they have been selling as "kit" Lenses since the "A" era are not out there too on the "A and Later" side of the ledger? In fact, the 70's was much MORE Of a prime lens era then by the time of "A" and later lenses so I would venture to say there are WAY MORE good primes (not 50mm) In existance of K/M type than the "A" later types. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:25 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: The JCO survey > Yeah, that's right, Pentax only printed a lens catalog in the 70's. > They never really sold any lenses other than 50mm K/M during > Those years. After all, who would want to change lenses on a SLR. Practically every camera body they sold during that time would have had a 50mm lens mounted to it. They sold something like 10 million K1000 cameras. Thats pretty close to 10 million 50mm f/2 lenses right there. A lens catalogue shows what is supposed to be available, not what people actually buy. Methinks the HUGE NUMBER OF K LENSES that you are discussing is, in reality, a fairly small number of lenses that people would actually want to mount to a new camera. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
