Re: Luminious landscape Photokina report.

2012-09-23 Thread David Parsons
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 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

Re: Luminious landscape Photokina report.

2012-09-23 Thread P. J. Alling
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 Penta