Bojidar Dimitrov wrote: > > Hi all, > > After I started gathering the Pentax 5-digit catalog numbers, I have > realized a few things, and since then I have been busy with internal > restructuring of the KMP. > > Here are some obeservations and questions: > > - There are multiple numbers for a single lens. The numbers usually > differ in the last digit: "0" means that the lens was sold with a > carrying case, and "7" means that the carrying case was sold separately. > > - Lenses with different colors have different 5-digit numbers. > > - Some early K lenses had 4-digit catalog numbers. These four digits > are the same ones that later on got the suffix 0 or 7, to indicate if > there was a case inclused or not. > > - Some 5-digit numbers end in "1" or "5", but I do not have enough of > those to be able to determine their meaning. Probably it has to do with > the hood or the color of the lenses. > > - What I really want to know is if there are two different catalog > numbers for the same lens with two different names. For example, are > the catalog number for the "SMC Pentax 1:3.5/15" different from that of > the "SMC Pentax 1:3.5 15mm"? > > - The next KMP release will reflect all these "complications", but it > will take a few more weeks until I get all this straightened out. > > More to come later. Cheers, > Boz > > -- > _\\|//_ Imagination is more important than knowledge... > 0(` O-O ')0 A. Einstein > ===ooO=(_)=Ooo======================================================= > Bojidar D. Dimitrov author and editor, Pentax K-Mount web page > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kmp.BDimitrov.de/ > ===================================================================== > <__> <__>
Some lenses that came with cases spanned the production change from hard cases to soft cases, the A*200/2.8 was one of them. I believe that the unit that came with the hard case had a different catalog number than the unit that comes with the soft case. I had the unit that came with the hard case but no longer have the box for comparison with the Pentax catalog number in the BHPhotoVideo site. -- David S. Nature and wildlife photography http://www.sheppardphotos.com
