KX colours

But this is poetry, pure and simple, yet so deep and meaningful! Just what I need to end the week - bring me more!

It seemed like poetry to me too - it has that structure about it, doesn't it?

We all need to laugh a whole mouth super acid!

Dan

Indeed. From now on this is my motto!

here is more link good thing is they also have nice photos and it's about Pentax, what more could you want?

Mowog, no comment on the paint job, I've no idea how they do it.

I don't remember the exact source so I could easily be wrong, but I was under the impression they were making the colours by colouring the plastic. It's cheaper to produce all the cameras on the same line and change the plastic being injected into the moulds than to colour individual cameras was the claim.

Pentax have been re-using their iconic names since the start of the K series, it didn't take a genious to figure out the origins of the name K100D. I agree it's a shame to "waste" KX (which IIRC was top of the range?) on an entry level camera, just as it was a waste of the name "Takumar" to designate entry level designs in the A and F series era. There isn't a lot that can be done about it though, we live in a time when this sort of marketing sells.

I hope you're right.

Time (and a bit of rubbing) will tell.

What is odd is that the only colour that is used that isn't a gimmick is camouflage and they don't do one in that. You see nature photographers doing all sorts of nasty things to their beloved Nikons and Canons to camouflage them. Olive green is the closest I guess. Missed a trick there, Pentax.
Dave

I think it's brilliant. There is a whole new market out there waiting to be tapped. This is the age of the accessory and fashion. There could be millions out there who want their camera to stand out. Not me, it's a tool I use but my two daughters love it.

Also, it's taking the lead and the publicity value and brand awareness among today's electronic branded youth will grow enormously. This is partly why Sony has done so well. People under 30 perhaps had never heard of Minolta.

Best of luck Pentax, this could really pick the brand up and will not detract at all from the seriousness of black camera snappers god bless em. I'm one.