On 11/4/05, Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a,snip> > > Pentax = PENTaprism + contAX - right? I've read this in several places > > I'm afraid it's a simple guess by book authors. In fact Zeiss never adopted > the Pentax name for their SLR's.
you're right, i think, it is guesswork. i always heard that pentax was was PENTAprism-refleX, so who knows? > > > And thus is > > Pentacon = PENTAprism + CONtax?? > > That could be, but it also could be just a name sounding well. i read somewhere someplace that in fact that's accurate. what became the praktica works in dresden used to be owned by contax, or so i heard... -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
