On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:11 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > I still have the MX I bought only a year later. > > I've often wondered why Pentax introduced two entirely new > body ranges so close together - they must have had the M-series > bodies well on the way to production by the time the KM/KX/K2 > were released.
The answer is Market Forces. If you will recall, everyone made big body SLRs until Olympus shook up the world with the introduction of the OM-1 system. http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/olympusom1n2/om1/ The Pentax M series was clearly a response to that. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- 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.