On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sadly, that happened to me back in 2003. Canon and Nikon were bringing out > consumer level DSLRs. The Canon D60 (6mp) cost me 3000 GBP back in the days > when I was earning good money. Kept and used some Pentax lenses, but my > last Pentax cameras were MXs and an LX! > > I wanted desperately for Pentax to release the MZ-D but alas, it never > came…. > > Never went back, sadly. Although my wife still uses an original *ist D > that I occasionally have to persuade into operation for her… > > Hope all well, > > Cotty > If Pentax had released the MZ-D back in 2002/2003, the company would have failed right then and there, probably with no white knight to save them. As it was it cost them dearly and they never recovered. Kyocera tried to build a Contax around the same chip and it killed them. The sensor didn’t work. bill -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
