Ah, me olde memorie finally kicked in.
Pentax discontinued production of *medium format film* cams. Uh, correct?
ScottGee1
On 9/21/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think you're hallucinating. The last film announcement was several
> years ago but they still offer both 35mm and medium format film cameras
> as well as medium format digital. The K10D announcement is only a week
> old and three new digital only lenses were announced just this morning.
>
> You're probably thinking of Minolta which went through a lot of painful
> restructuring and then folded in with Konica. When that wasn't enough
> they got out of the camera business altogether and sold all the assets
> including the rights to the Minolta mount to Sony. The first product of
> that sale is the Sony Alpha DSLR with Minolta mount announced in June
> <http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydslra100/>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> ScottGee1 wrote:
> > Very interesting indeed!
> >
> > But correct me if I'm wrong; did Pent@x announce they were getting out
> > of the camera biz? Or was that just film-based products? Or am I
> > hallucinating? Again?
> >
> > ScottGee1
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