All, I haven't looked at Pentax patents for awhile, so I did a search at the U.S. Patent Office website. I found these extremely cool Pentax Patents:
6311022 "Film-Back Exchangeable Camera" Maybe a new version of their 645, but with exchangeable backs? Cool.... 6318912 "Adapter Having a Tilt and Shift Mechanism" I really want this one! Looks like a teleconverter built into a tilt-shift mechanism. Must require stop-down metering, though. Very, very cool.... 6301441 "Lens Driving Device" Looks like a mechanism to allow simultaneous auto and manual focus--the same functionality now offered by USM lenses. Maybe this will be built into a new range of Pentax lenses? You can view the patents for free at the U.S. Patent Trademark Office website. Here is a link to their patent number search engine. http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/srchnum.htm --Mark - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
