----- Original Message -----
From: "Dario Bonazza 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: R: "Pentax" name - why?
> It's true that Asahi was not allowed to use Pentax name for a
while.
> However, it didn't happen in Germany, it happened in South Africa
in late
> Fifties, where Pentacon registered the name Pentax for a line of
movie
> projectors.
> For that reason, Asahi called their SLR's with such names as Asahi
Pentar
> (models S and K in 1958) or Asahiflex (model H2 of 1959). You can
see one of
> them currently auctioned at ebay:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1208904588
>
> It has also been reported that Pentacon made a prototype medium
format SLR
> called the Pentax in mid-fifties, but it never reached the market.
They
> probably planned to use such a name for other camera models too,
but when
> they were ready to do that, Asahi had already established the
Pentax name
> worldwide.
Well, it's possible that *someone* registered the name Pentax. I
just don't see how Pentacon could have done it *before* it came into
being in 1964.
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