On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:32:49PM -0500, JC OConnell scripsit:
> Are they that thick headed/uncreative that they cant think of new model
> names? Its not like cars where you have a '75 KM and a '09 KM. They
> are both model KM(K-M). Thats lazy if not stupid. I dont think there is
> any big marketing value in "KM" either like calling it a K1000 or LX
> or something.
They could call it Cloud of Weasels, too, but it (I suspect) is a
conscious move to get away from number names. No one ever knows if
you're supposed to count down (the 1 is the best one), up (the 1000 is
the best one), or if the 110 is better than the 100i.
I'm half expecting they're actually using "m" for "mille", thousand;
this is the K2000 but that abbreviates to K-m, so the next one is the
K-m2, etc. until someone decides a nomenclature refresh is in order
again. (Or maybe 3, in a fit of wild consistency with the abandoned
numerical system.)
If so, that would make the K300D the K-c ("centi", hundred), the K30D
the K-d ("decem", "decim", "deci", etc.; ten), and the much-hypothesized
K3D the K-u ("unus", one) but even Pentax marketing might balk at that.
I certainly hope they'll balk at K-p ("primus", first), so perhaps the
pro model will be the only one to retain its numeric designation. Or
maybe they'll decide "P is for pro" just as readily as "M is for mama".
("C is for competent", "D is for determined"?)
It's got the sort of demented logic to it that Pentax marketing has been
known to use in the past.
-- Graydon
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