Welcome to the Pentax FAQ !! These pages contains some of the
wisdoms that can be found on the net conserning Pentax cameras,
lenses etc.
This FAQ can not exist wihout the help of you, so
please if you feel that you can contribute to this FAQ send me an
email and I'll add the info to the
FAQ.
Furthermore, there are quite a few question marks (?) in the tables
which need to be filled out. The same camera may have the different
names inside and outside of the US market. I designate this as
either <INTERNATIONAL MODEL>/<US MODEL> (e.g.
Z-1p/PZ-1p), or put the US model in parenthesis, such as SF-X
(SF-1).
I am sorry that I have disappointed Pentax 67, 645, screw mount and
110 users by including too little material about them in this FAQ.
Actually, it is always my intention to cover them as well, but as it
now is, I myself am pretty ignorant about these systems and I have
not received any contributions about them yet. I especially need
your contributions in these areas !
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commercial advantage. The maintainer prefers this FAQ to be
distributed in its entirety, and requests acknowledgement for
quoting, copying and distributing its parts.
The maintainer and all contributors made their best efforts to
ensure the accuracy of the information in this FAQ. However, neither
the maintainer nor any contributors assume any responsibility for
losses and damages resulting from the use of the information in this
FAQ. Use the information at your own risk.
A lot of people have contributed to this FAQ which was first created by Bo-Min Tong. Please remember one thing: It will be impossible to keep this FAQ updated without the help of you (yes, I know, it was the second time).
Currently there is only a HTML version of this FAQ (there is an text
file of the older version of this FAQ)
Current version 96-10-12 2.1.5
More details about what has been changed.
You can obtain archive copy of this FAQ (note that some file names don't conform to brain-damaged 8.3 format, so internal links might be broken).
The other FAQs associated with rec.photo.* are in the following two ftp sites.
There you'll find rec.photo.FAQ, Canon EOS FAQ, Camera Feature List,
Mail Order Survey, Zuiko (Olympus) Lens Tests, etc, far too numerous
to be listed here.
The Pentax WWW page is at http://www.pentax.com/.
You can join the Pentax
announcement
and
discussion
mailing lists there.
You can also find more information the old-fashioned way -- by reading
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