Don't really care what they call it. I'd be more interested in the image quality.
DS P.S. your email app is still adding a boatload of space to the end of all messages. 2009/2/19 JC OConnell <hifis...@gate.net>: > right, I guess every camera they come out with from > now now on should be the (new)K20D... > > JC O'Connell > hifis...@gate.net > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:58 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Whats with recent Pentax Camera names? > > > Who gives a f&%k what a camera is named? > > People pissed & moaned about the *ist series, but still manage/d to take > photos with them. > > DS > > 2009/2/19 JC OConnell <hifis...@gate.net>: >> 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.
