DG
At 10:53 AM 2/19/03 -0600, you wrote:
> the *ist ( what idiot within the bowels of > Pentax came up with that horrible name?)Oh, I don't know, I kind of like it. It's distinctive. It's a lot better than yet one more anonymous alphanumeric mishmash, like DF-20K or 5XL-P. Personally, I've been in the photo industry for years and I've written camera reviews for a living, yet I still get all the anonymous names of cheap SLRs mixed up--especially when the same camera has different names is the U.S. and the rest of the world. At least with the *ist all of us know exactly what we're talking about. And I wonder if we'd be talking about it quite so much if it had a more anonymous name. Another thing I hate is when a camera with a plain and distinctive name does so well that the company begins applying some variation of the name to a whole bunch of other cameras. The name "Stylus," for instance, long ago lost all meaning, at least in my mind. --Mike
