Mark Roberts wrote: >ann sanfedele wrote: > >Markus Maurer wrote: > > >>>Are you pulling my leg asking if a Takumar lens is a Pentax lens? >>> >>No - I just don't remember Takumar at all.... I'm 70, remember :) >> >> > >Up until 1975 there was no such thing as a "Pentax" lens: Asahi Optical >Co. sold their cameras under the "Pentax" brand name and their lenses >under the "Takumar" brand name. > > ___________________________ well that explains it... I bought my first Pentax in 1975 exactly... I had had a Ricoh before and the use of my husband's Mamiya sekkor.
so I'm not as senile as I thought :) ann > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
