Peter, Since when is Schneider anything more than an old trade name that Samsung slaps on somebody elses lenses. Schneider last made lenses when, the 1950's or early 1960's? I have some in M42 screw mount for the old Pentax K camera. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Peter Fairweather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next week's Amateur Photographer in the UK has a "newspaper style" > insert, "The Amateur Photographer Iformer" > > Samsung feature very strongly with a 2 page advertisement centre > spread on the GX20. On the front page you can read about their plans > to produce their own lenses rather than rely on Tokina. With help > from their partners Schneider they will be able to create very high > quality products > > Doesn't time fly. It seems like only last week that Pentax were still > advertising the K10D. It probably was!! Perhaps they could make their > marketing expertise available to Samsung. What do these big electronic > firms know about real cameras? > > Anyone remember the name of the Japanese firm that used to make > betamax? I wonder if they are still trading? > > Peter > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
