Hi all,
After I started gathering the Pentax 5-digit catalog numbers, I have
realized a few things, and since then I have been busy with internal
restructuring of the KMP.
Here are some obeservations and questions:
- There are multiple numbers for a single lens. The numbers usually
differ in the last digit: "0" means that the lens was sold with a
carrying case, and "7" means that the carrying case was sold separately.
- Lenses with different colors have different 5-digit numbers.
- Some early K lenses had 4-digit catalog numbers. These four digits
are the same ones that later on got the suffix 0 or 7, to indicate if
there was a case inclused or not.
- Some 5-digit numbers end in "1" or "5", but I do not have enough of
those to be able to determine their meaning. Probably it has to do with
the hood or the color of the lenses.
- What I really want to know is if there are two different catalog
numbers for the same lens with two different names. For example, are
the catalog number for the "SMC Pentax 1:3.5/15" different from that of
the "SMC Pentax 1:3.5 15mm"?
- The next KMP release will reflect all these "complications", but it
will take a few more weeks until I get all this straightened out.
More to come later. Cheers,
Boz
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