Re: Luminious landscape Photokina report.
I'll give them a little license, with the instant return mirror, Asahi essentially invented the modern SLR. I have an Alpa Reflex, (type II, Badged Bolsey Reflex), that is really quite crude with an non instant return mirror and waist level thru the lens viewing, no prism. Believe me Pentax invented the modern SLR. On 9/23/2012 2:34 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that Pentax invented the slr. I thought that the Asahi innovation with the Pentax camera (it was originally just a model of an Asahi brand camera) was that it had the first instantly returning mirror. Before that when the mirror raised and shutter fired the mirror stayed up (and the viewfinder remained black) until the shutter was cocked (don't know if this was tied into winding the film yet) for the next photo. But there were slrs around before the Pentax. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Sent: September 23, 2012 9/23/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Luminious landscape Photokina report. Pull quote about Pentax, in fact pretty much the entire report about Pentax... Oh, god, poor Pentax. They invented the SLR, though you would never know it. Their cameras have always been excellent. Their lenses have always been excellent. Their marketing? Face-palm! Pentax had but a fraction of the physical presence of the other major makers, and nothing to push their innovative products. The foremost of these is the K-5IIs, which, hugely, looses the dreaded Anti-aliasing filter. This is the first APS-C sized camera to take that brave step, following in the D800E’s lead. This is potentially a big deal, but I could barely get anyone to even explain it to me. Ugh. Marketing! -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Luminious landscape Photokina report.
Yep, Exacta make non-return SLRs at least a decade before Pentax made autoreturn SLRs. On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 2:34 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that Pentax invented the slr. I thought that the Asahi innovation with the Pentax camera (it was originally just a model of an Asahi brand camera) was that it had the first instantly returning mirror. Before that when the mirror raised and shutter fired the mirror stayed up (and the viewfinder remained black) until the shutter was cocked (don't know if this was tied into winding the film yet) for the next photo. But there were slrs around before the Pentax. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Sent: September 23, 2012 9/23/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Luminious landscape Photokina report. Pull quote about Pentax, in fact pretty much the entire report about Pentax... Oh, god, poor Pentax. They invented the SLR, though you would never know it. Their cameras have always been excellent. Their lenses have always been excellent. Their marketing? Face-palm! Pentax had but a fraction of the physical presence of the other major makers, and nothing to push their innovative products. The foremost of these is the K-5IIs, which, hugely, looses the dreaded Anti-aliasing filter. This is the first APS-C sized camera to take that brave step, following in the D800E’s lead. This is potentially a big deal, but I could barely get anyone to even explain it to me. Ugh. Marketing! -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
