>> This just >> confirms my impression that Pentax is a moribund brand.
Hardly. With the first DSLR coming out next Spring, the baby Optio digicams selling like hotcakes for Christmas, the first flagship body in years still new (well, newish) on the market, whole medium format lines including an AF 645, and...yes, riches galore, endless riches, on eBay, from Pentax history.... I don't know, but I suspect that most of the people on this list, like me, could survive for the rest of our photographic lives quite nicely if EVERY OTHER photographic brand name BUT Pentax dried up and blew away tomorrow.... Pentax uber alles, --Mike Mike Johnston ________ See my weekly online column about photography at either of these two locations: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sunday1.shtml http://www.steves-digicams.com/smp/smp_index.html Also, check out my new monthly column in the English _Black & White Photography_ magazine!
