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[OM] Re: [OT] Retro Pentax Digital SLR - 50th anniversary

Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Retro Pentax Digital SLR - 50th anniversary
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:12:45 -0700
Confirmed by the SLR history here which also mentions some  
historically significant Olympus contributions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_single- 
lens_reflex_camera#Exakta



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On / October 30, 2007 CE, at 2:21 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:

> They seem to have let their excitement at the anniversary get in  
> the way of
> reality.  The AP was certainly not the first camera to feature a  
> pentaprism,
> not even the first 35mm camera to feature a pentaprism.  Among the
> predecessors of the Pent@x was the Cont@x S, an East German camera  
> made at
> the former Cont@x works - the works which later became known as  
> Pent@con.
> As I recall the brand name that was used was an adaptation of  the  
> Cont@x
> name to reflect the pentaprism added (Pentaprism + Cont@x) ... the  
> name was
> Pent@x, and Asahi Optical bought the rights to the name from the East
> Germans.



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