I remember reading that Sony has replaced the Minolta proprietary hot
shoe with something else weather it's another proprietary mount based on
the ISO standard or something else, I don't know. The local Camera
store that carries Sony only has the NEX line in stock.
On 7/3/2013 6:10 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "P.J. Alling"
When Pentax was first acquired by Ricoh, I read on someone's photography
blog that Ricoh, wanted a prestige name on a prestige product, but
unfortunately between Ricoh and Pentax they thought that Ricoh was the
prestige name. Pentax/Ricoh imaging was just an interim name until the
merger of assets was complete. Will they rebrand the SLR line as Ricoh,
who knows but if they didn't intend to continue making SLR's Ricoh could
have killed the K-50 and K-500. They didn't so we'll just have to wait
and see.
I don't really care if the name on the front of the camera or the lenses
is Pentax or Ricoh, as long as my K-mount lenses still work & we don't
go back to the days of that problem where the lenses got stuck & you
couldn't get them to come off.
Sony bought Minolta & the name went away. But, old Minolta lenses are
still compatible with Sony's Minolta lens mount (AFAIK) & you still have
to use an adapter to mount a hot-shoe flash on that funky proprietary
mount Minolta had.
So, I don't think this is the end of the world ... YET.
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