Boris, I think the patents protecting the KA mount are simply not applicable anymore.
Manufacturers could produce K-mount as it has always been open to anyone but not the KA mount. There are reasons why Chinon and Ricoh went for their own Kmount variation when they needed. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

