Pentax Joins the Digital Big Leagues One of the first serious cameras that I ever owned was a Pentax Spotmatic. This was in 1965 when I was just beginning my career as a photojournalist. I couldn't afford a Nikon or a Leica, and the Pentax had stop-down TTL metering (wow!), so as an incipient techy I was drawn to it. Pentax screw mount lenses were ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. Since then I have used the occasional Pentax model, including the MX for a while in the late 70's, and in the late 1990's the Pentax 645 and Pentax 67 medium format systems. The only reason I moved away from these was that they didn't offer a digital migration path. In the 35mm arena Pentax has always been one of the middle tier players. Like Olympus with its lovely OM system Pentax took a stab at the pro market with their LX model in the early 1980's. Both company's garnered loyal followings but neither were able to serio...