Well, they ~could~ have standardized things when the industry went bayonet but they chose not to.
Same thing's happened in other industries. Everyone wants you to buy their products exclusively, not mix-and-match. Everything's proprietary these days, by design. Sigh. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> Sent: June 30, 2013 6/30/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: GESO - Bessaflex I love the mannequins on the stairs. Seeing the m42 Super-Tak on that Voigtlander makes me wonder how different things would have been if they could have standardized on a bayonet mount when screw mount was phased out. Not Invented Here syndrom is just such a pain in the ass. On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A few weeks ago, I acquired a nice example of the rare-ish Voigtlander > Bessaflex in black. What a pretty camera. Takes the same Voigtlander grip > and trigger winder as their R rangefinders, and the feel of the body is > pretty similar too. In other words, nice and solid. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/06/bessaflex/index.html > > Also upgraded to LR5 this month. Spotting film scans is now half-way > enjoyable. > > -- > > [email protected] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
