Larry Colen wrote: >P.J. Alling wrote: > >>>> FF replacement. If you were designing a replacement for the K-3 >>>> range, you would surely want to call that a K-1. >>>> >>> I don't think Pentax thinks that far ahead. >> >> Well, Pentax starts a naming convention, follows it for a few models, >> then screws it up, then starts over. >> >> For a very long time Pentax had a very well thought out full line of >> lenses, in the original K, then M, then A, then F, then it all started >> to go to hell... > >I remember reading someplace recently that Pentax didn't name any lenses >"K", that's just what people called them.
Yup. The original K-mount lenses were just "SMC Pentax" lenses. The first lenses, actually, to bear the Pentax brand name. All the screw mount lenses made my the Asahi Optical Company were branded "Takumar" (or "Super Takumer or SMC Takumar"). -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
