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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-10-2014, 02:45 PM
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A 'kit' lens to me is a lens that's bundled with a camera body (in the same box) that isn't available on it's own in the lens line-up. These lenses are most often built down to a price - so much so that the kit only cost slightly more than an equivalent 'body only' price. I first came across this when super-cheap AF film SLRs arrived (for Pentax this would have been the MZ-30 time period).
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-09-2014, 02:11 PM
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Cameras then weren't sold with 'kit' lenses, you bought the body and a lens to go with it (if required). Even when zooms became popular, they still weren't really considered 'kit' lenses - a body + zoom would always cost more than the same body with a 50mm. Most LXs would probably have been sold either body only or with the relevant 50mm f/1.4 option (M, A or even possibly F series). When new, the cameras were very expensive, and buying a 50/2 or 50/1.7 would make very little difference to the overall cost compared to a 50/1.4 (the 50/1.2 would probably have been quite specialised even then).
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