The sony proprietary hot shoe was NEX only I believe....(I could be wrong), but I believe that sony is going back to a standard hot shoe that will take mostly anything.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:43 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > I remember reading that Sony has replaced the Minolta proprietary hot shoe > with something else weather it's another proprietary mount based on the ISO > standard or something else, I don't know. The local Camera store that > carries Sony only has the NEX line in stock. > > > On 7/3/2013 6:10 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> From: "P.J. Alling" >>> >>> When Pentax was first acquired by Ricoh, I read on someone's photography >>> blog that Ricoh, wanted a prestige name on a prestige product, but >>> unfortunately between Ricoh and Pentax they thought that Ricoh was the >>> prestige name. Pentax/Ricoh imaging was just an interim name until the >>> merger of assets was complete. Will they rebrand the SLR line as Ricoh, >>> who knows but if they didn't intend to continue making SLR's Ricoh could >>> have killed the K-50 and K-500. They didn't so we'll just have to wait >>> and see. >> >> >> I don't really care if the name on the front of the camera or the lenses >> is Pentax or Ricoh, as long as my K-mount lenses still work & we don't >> go back to the days of that problem where the lenses got stuck & you >> couldn't get them to come off. >> >> Sony bought Minolta & the name went away. But, old Minolta lenses are >> still compatible with Sony's Minolta lens mount (AFAIK) & you still have >> to use an adapter to mount a hot-shoe flash on that funky proprietary >> mount Minolta had. >> >> So, I don't think this is the end of the world ... YET. >> > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > > -- > 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.
