Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Pl Jensen
Lucas wrote: Currently. That still does not prove an in-lens system is better in principle. As a simile, public radio shifted from wireless technology to wired and back at least two times in the last 100 years... Right. Basically Canon had no choice being stucked with the in lens motor.

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Pl Jensen
William wrote: I like quality camera equipment. In 1975, I bought a Nikon F2s for professional use. The cameras that Pentax was offering at the time were a joke by comparison, and the F2 had been around for six years already. They have been consistently outclassed in real world

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Pl Jensen
Toralf wrote: I don't know much about the cameras of 1975, I do. I bought my first slr at that time and checked out every camera system. Nikon was ultra conservative, crude and based on 60' technology. No one who wanted the latest bought Nikon at that time. They sure had some respect but

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Pl Jensen
William wrote: It is immaterial whether they could, or couldn't, or anything else. In the mid 1960s. they made world class cameras, as good as just about anything else out there. By the early 1970s, they had been left in the dust by their competition. Really? The ES and ESII was at time