Of those I'm actually aware of let's see: One uses Nikon, two use Canon, one uses Olympus, one uses a Konica (TC3). Two (besides me), actually use Pentax, one an old KX the other an SF1. This is hardly a representative sample. Since Canon seems to have the largest market share I'd say neither of us would predict that fact based on our friends preferences in cameras. By the way only one of these people is in any way a professional photographer and she uses the SF1. When I was a working photographer my boss, for 35mm, used a pair of Yashica SLR's in Contax RTS mount. His lenses were Albanars. He made a fare amount of money with them.
Pentax sells quite a lot of the ZX series of cameras. I doubt that third party manufactures will ignore that market segment, if At 09:29 AM 10/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Peter Alling wrote: > > > > You know that's happened before. It could be more a problem of licensing > > than anything else. > >I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the K-mount will be referred to >in the past tense. > > > > At 02:40 PM 10/12/2002 +0100, Malcom wrote: > > > > <snip> > > >[some] lens manufacturers are offering their latest products > > with fittings > > >for most > > >*other* manufacturers, but not K-mount. The new Tamron 28-300mm > > zoom for a > > >start. > > > > Then again maybe they think that Pentax users won't stand for the loss of > > image quality > > found in a 'super' zoom, so they don't expect to sell any. ;) > >Outside of PDML, how many of your friends use Pentax cameras? Of my SLR >owner friends, 50% own the 'N' word equipment and the others would have to >look at them to tell! > >I don't think that Tamron have bothered because they are selling to a mainly >second hand camera body market. If Pentax launched a DSLR >though.............. > >Malcolm
