Originally posted by Kunzite OK, so until then they were fully committed in re-branding Pentax cameras.
yes, and sensors were designed to be use for those
Samsung (initially just branded from some source w/ necessary expertise and market recognition, later designed completelyby Samsung itself... )
cameras, not for
Pentax as a company... it did not work out w/ dSLRs (in terms of market share) so Samsumg 14.6Mk2 was redesigned featurewise towards Samsung EVIL cameras (CDAF, etc), not because it was Pentax w/ its marketwise failure like K7... but you can continue to believe that Samsung entered the field because Pentax had money to pay for the development of the sensor or because Samsung was going to just sell its sensors to Pentax w/ its small marketshare.