Thanks for all the replies!
I was thinking, interestingly enough...Since Pentax was a Zeiss(?) trademark
that Asahi bought -
Pentax = PENTaprism + contAX- right? I've read this in several places
And thus is
Pentacon = PENTAprism + CONtax??
All of a sudden the names seemed so similar to me..
Mark Pickett wrote:
I was thinking, interestingly enough...Since Pentax was a Zeiss(?)
trademark
that Asahi bought -
That's not sure. Zeiss Jena only used the Pentax name in eastern countries,
for their line of 8mm cine projectors.
They also registered the Pentax brand name in South Africa (
On 11/4/05, Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 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
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