On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, at 12:49 AM, Darren Addy wrote: > 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. >
That's always been my understanding, too. But as John pointed out, the M series appeared only about a year after the K series. That's a very short time frame for development and production of a new model. If the M series was a response to the Olympus OM series, Pentax must have had prior knowledge that the OMs were coming. A spy at Olympus, perhaps? :-) Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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.
