My Mamiya 1000TL died about then. I had been shooting with it for years and had acquired four M42 lenses. So I went to buy a Spotmatic only to find my camera store had only the new Pentax K cameras. If the counter guy had explained the screw mount adapter I probably would have gone for a Pentax K. But he didn't, so I bought a Fuji 801 M42 camera. Good technology and I probably shot over 100,000 frames with it over ten years or so and made quite a bit of money. Finally got my Pentaxes used in the late '80s. First an H3v, then a bunch of Spotmatics and Spotmatic Fs. I made up for lost time. Even had an all black Spotmatic motor drive. Sold that beauty for big bucks to a guy in Japan but still have my other M42 Pentax cameras. No Ks, but an LX and an MX.
Paul via phone > On Apr 5, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> 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. -- 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.
