Originally posted by Asahiflex Joking aside: what about KR-XX? As the Ricoh SLR's were called way back then.
I hope not
K is for K-mount, R is for Ricoh, I suppose. Being a Ricoh's camera made for the K-mount of that era, it did make sense then.
Today, well ... does anything make sense? I personally like the K-7, K-5, K-3 nomenclature. But it isn't enough to cover all the possible ranges of cameras. Yet it was powerful and simple enough in times when Pentax needed direct and simple recognition in the market. Now we have the K-3, and K-1 left to be used. That is enough for the next 4-5 years for one line of cameras, I suppose. Even then it can be extended with extra letters after the numbers (K-3s, K-1s, or K3-II, K1-II etc.) and be safe for a whole decade.
I suspect (
just a gut feeling, nothing more than that) that we could see something that has two letters, like the MX, LX, ME, etc. coming again for other lines (FF, and non-standard DSLR form of cameras for the K-mount).