I hope you are right Rob. I cannot imagine if something breaks in it a year from now. I'll send it away and get it back a year later.
Brad Dobo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Brigham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:16 PM Subject: RE: Exclusive picture of "new" Pentax D-SLR > I don't quite buy this. > > IF the MD-S/MZ-D/MR-52 was designed SOLELY as a digital camera from the > beginning it would be unlikely that the body would be shaped in such a > way to make a film camera sensible. The insides would likely have been > designed in a way that the film gubbins did not sensibly fit. Unless > the change to produce the film version happenned early enough in the > life cycle that the design of the digital body could be altered to > factor this in. But if it happenned this early then the effect wont be > far different to developing them as twins anyway. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pål Jensen [mailto:paaljensen@;sensewave.com] > > Sent: 28 October 2002 16:33 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Exclusive picture of "new" Pentax D-SLR > > > > > > Brad wrote: > > > > > I asked this before and was told they were developed as twins, that > > > the MZ-S was not a DSLR that didn't work out and ended up > > being made > > > into a 35mm camera. What's the real story? > > > > The MD-S was developed as a digital camera. Somewhere along > > the way, the bosses decided to make a film version of the > > camera to much dismay of the engineers. So MZ-S didn't figure > > into Pentax long term film slr plans (if they indeed have > > such plans!). > > > > Pål > > > > > > > > >
