On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 12:33 AM, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
> I have very little knowledge of the history > of Pentax's P&S cameras. > > Did they ever produce one with a single > focal length SMC AF lens of very high quality > ala a 35mm F2.8 or so? > > Also, did they ever make a P&S that > let you manually set fstop and shutter > speeds if you wanted to? > > If so, what was/were the model number(s)? > > JCO I've wondered that, too. I wanted to find something like the Yashica T4-Super (35mm F3.5 Zeiss T*) or the Ricoh GR-1 or GR-10. No such luck. Pentax does seem to be offering very competitive products as far as binoculars, spotting scopes, and eye pieces for telescopes. And I wonder if they are ever going to make a high quality digital P&S. While the cases of their current models are really chic, quiet a few of the pictures I've seen uploaded from them look like smeary video caps instead of photos. The output from Fuji's digital P&S's have a more Pentax look, to me, than Pentax's offerings. Pentax needs to get off its collective butt and start hustling again. Dan Scott
