Duplicated thread removed, please only post once to avoid confusion.

I'm not aware of ever having seen a counterfeit lens.

However, I would imagine that if the box was copied, maybe the instruction leaflets, and a lens was inserted that looked vaguely simlar ir might pass muster until it was opened at home. Showing a genuine lens in a shop and then giving a boxed one to take away could cover a multitude of sins.

I have seen a counterfeit text book and it was inferior to the real thing, but it was good enough to pass as real if the original wasn't there to compare it with.

If it's worth copying a dental textbook then a lens must have more potential.

That's what they have been doing all along.

Obviously the sight of a Splendid Spotmatic has driven you all to new heights of Creativity.

Pentax using a new mount when the Pentax K mount was designed so well in the first place would be crazy. It's proved itself over 35 years and has been up to being developed further as the electroics have taken over.

The K mount is wide enough to design 50mm f1.2 lenses, so I reckon it's good for a while yet.

If Pentax did design a smaller format for mirrorless cameras and needed a special small mount for them, my bet is that they would from the start design an appropriate K adapter to go with it. This would be possible if the design was a radical rethink especially.

Think of the alternative designs of the past and imagine cameras with different sorts of shutter, exchangeable front cells with a fixed rear cell design, Shutter/aperture mechanisms such as the film 110 design, and lots more. Pentax are capable of thinking outside the box (witness all the unusual lens designs)so we could be very surprised yet.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Counterfeit_Pentax_lenses_among_gear_s...

If the counterfeiters are making fake Pentax and Canon lenses, I suppose that tells us what they thought was profitable....

Just mark the boxes for any messages you don't want and then click "delete marked" and they will be gone...

If you click on that message icon it should disappear, as opposed to following the link that was e-mailed to you.

I'll just double check that it's possible to delete items from the Inbox.

You can opt not to receive notifications in your Profile I think, but then you won't receive genuine ones.

I'm glad we can all have a sense of humour!