Originally posted by RockvilleBob This doesn't bode well for L plate availability for future Pentax cameras - bad news. They were they only ones I know of who made a K3 L Plate.
Do you know if Mestos is out of business or is Mad for Camera out of business?
They are one and the same actually. MadForCamera is simply the webstore run by the manufacturer of Mestos.
This indeed doesn't bode well at all. I sent a letter to Ricoh suggesting they manufacture their own QR plates and L brackets because nobody else will but I doubt anybody's going to care.
I've actually spent more on tripod gear than camera and I'm with the guy who said no bracket no body. But what really surprises me is the really small response around here. I guess nobody uses these which I just found quite shocking. Or maybe people are happy with the sort of generic little sliding the slot screw plates. Which at least explains why nobody makes these things, there's not near of a market for them as I thought.
I couldn't I couldn't live without my plates. I mean I never take them off the camera. Once installed they live there, permanently.
Mestos was it, except for one exception, the really right stuff K3L bracket. Which of when looking at it is I literally half the bracket the K5L bracket is. I don't like it. It's almost generic and only cradles one side of the bottom which means you're not distributing the stress along camera body anymore. It's not really custom "fit" but more of a custom aligned.
To this extent I'm considering ditching to both of my K-3'(ii)s and pick up a pair of K5iis.
One thing I suspect but cannot confirm until my K-3 gets back from service is that it's not identical and body shape to the K3ii. Which means my L bracket may actually fit on the K-3. But not my K3ii.
Or seriously look again at switching back to the evil Empire.