Sorry, but KM and K-m are the only ones I hear as sounding the same. All those others are clearly different. "XN" sounds like TEN" to you? Not to me.
JC O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Graydon Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Whats with recent Pentax Camera names? This: K1000, KM, KX, MX, K2, K2DMD, ME Super, LX, ME, MV, MV1, MG, ME F, Super A, Super Program, Program A, Program Plus, A3, A3000, P3, P30, P3n, P30n, P30t, P5, P50, SFX, SF1, SF7, SF10, SFXn, SF1n, Z-1p, PZ-1p, Z-1, PZ-1 Z-5p, Z-5, Z-10, PZ-10, Z-20, PZ-20, Z-50p, Z-70, PZ-70, MZ-S MZ-M, ZX-M, MZ-5, ZX-5, MZ-5n, ZX-5n, MZ-10, ZX-10, MZ-6, ZX-L, MZ-7, ZX-7, MZ-30, ZX-30, MZ-50, ZX-50, MZ-60, ZX-60, *ist, *ist D series, K100D, K110D, K100D Super, K200D, K-m, K2000, K10D, and K20D. does not strike me as an example of an historical practise of ideal nomenclatural disambiguation. I'd consider "SF10" and "SFXn" to sound at least vaguely similar when spoken; three P30s, many MZs, ZXs, Zs, PZs in there, too. The original KM went out of production in 1977, and the folks who remember it as an active product will be getting thin on the ground at Pentax. (Presumably especially in marketing.) Also, to a kanji reader, KM and K-m are going to be obviously different; if you can tell 鳥 and 馬apart as a regular thing (that's "bird" and "horse" and I only know about this from having had to print Chinese output in a previous life; I can neither speak nor read it) so I suspect the folks at Pentax think the name is the same. -- Graydon On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:56:02PM -0500, JC OConnell scripsit: > when in the past did they have new models that "sounded" just like old > models? > > JC O'Connell > hifis...@gate.net > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf > Of Graydon > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:52 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Whats with recent Pentax Camera names? > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:32:49PM -0500, JC OConnell scripsit: > > Are they that thick headed/uncreative that they cant think of new > > model names? Its not like cars where you have a '75 KM and a '09 KM. > > They are both model KM(K-M). Thats lazy if not stupid. I dont think > > there is any big marketing value in "KM" either like calling it a > > K1000 or LX or something. > > They could call it Cloud of Weasels, too, but it (I suspect) is a > conscious move to get away from number names. No one ever knows if > you're supposed to count down (the 1 is the best one), up (the 1000 is > the best one), or if the 110 is better than the 100i. > > I'm half expecting they're actually using "m" for "mille", thousand; > this is the K2000 but that abbreviates to K-m, so the next one is the > K-m2, etc. until someone decides a nomenclature refresh is in order > again. (Or maybe 3, in a fit of wild consistency with the abandoned > numerical system.) > > If so, that would make the K300D the K-c ("centi", hundred), the K30D > the K-d ("decem", "decim", "deci", etc.; ten), and the > much-hypothesized K3D the K-u ("unus", one) but even Pentax marketing > might balk at that. I certainly hope they'll balk at K-p ("primus", > first), so perhaps the pro model will be the only one to retain its > numeric designation. Or maybe they'll decide "P is for pro" just as > readily as "M is for mama". ("C is for competent", "D is for > determined"?) > > It's got the sort of demented logic to it that Pentax marketing has > been known to use in the past. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
