On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Alan Chan wrote: > >From: Henry Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I think Pentax did try to their best maintain the K-mount but they have > >admitted defeat finally. That's why suddenly they decided to carry out > >so much R&D effort to move forward.
On the contrary, the patent described a lot of details in backwards compatibility of KAF mount lenses. So it looks more likely to me that it is a evolution of the K mount. > >BTW, there is one more patent application I found relating to the > >proposed convertor for the new lens mount to the existing mount: There is also a description of a "rear converter"; could this be the image stabilization convertor for existing lenses? > >No. 20020118963 Camera system having a communication system between > >a camera body and a photographing lens The main function for this patent is the control of image stabilized lenses. On related notes, there were also recent patents of image stabilized binoculars, mirror box design for digital SLR and camera controls/interface on the back cover of the camera. -- --Lawrence Kwan--SMS Info Service/Ringtone Convertor--PGP:finger/www-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vex.net/~lawrence/ -Key ID:0x6D23F3C4--
