Well, if he had said that in the first place.
--- Ray Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you are not in the U.S. of A. ...and that is
where Paul is referring to.
Subject: RE: When was Heiland Pentax?
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which
does
not have the word Honeywell
Okay, Okay. I was wrong, I admit it. Just ignore me.
Jody.
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From: petit miam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:07 AM
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Subject: Re: When was Heiland Pentax?
Well, if he had said that in the first place.
--- Ray Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you are not in the U.S. of A. ...and that is
where Paul
petit miam wrote:
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Not exactly. I bought my Spotmatic in Japan in 1966. It says Asahi
Pentax. At the same time, the same camera was being sold in the US
Thanks again, John.
Paul M. Provencher
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From: John Mullan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 4:59 PM
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petit miam wrote:
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
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Subject: Re: When was Heiland Pentax?
But you are not in the U.S. of A. ...and that is where Paul is referring to.
Ray Allen. Sydney. Australia.
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Subject: RE: When was Heiland Pentax?
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax. So that blows that theory
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Jody.
--- Provencher, Paul M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I am almost certain that Honeywell name stayed on
Pentax cameras until the
demise of the screw-mount
: Sunday, May 27, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: RE: When was Heiland Pentax?
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Jody.
--- Provencher, Paul M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am almost certain
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Aihe: RE: When was Heiland Pentax?
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax
petit miam wrote:
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
not have the word Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi
Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Jody.
--- Provencher, Paul M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am almost certain that Honeywell name stayed on
Pentax cameras until
petit miam wrote:
Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does not have the word
Honeywell on it. It is an Asahi Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Just to clarify, only the Pentaxes imported into the US had the Honeywell
label. The rest of the world used Asahi, AKAIK.
chris
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What you have was probably a either a Grey market import or an
overseas purchase. It isn't unheard of to find cameras of that era
that were bought into the US by returning servicemen after being
bought in the far east or Germany. I have in fact a Kodak Retina
which was meant to be sold in
Heiland use to make flash guns, then strobs. They expanded
to selling Pentax in the late fifties (I think). Honeywell
bought them out about 1963 or so and became the Pentax
distributor and continued to make the strobs untill the late
seventies (78?) when they sold those to Rollei. They had
given
I bought my first SLR in 1966, a used Honeywell Pentax H2 or H3 (don't
remember now). Soon after that, I guess, Honeywell stopped being the
importer.
Today in a camera store I found an old, metal, push-on 49 mm. lens cap
labeled Heiland Pentax. Does anyone know what this company was, and when
On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:30:40 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Today in a camera store I found an old, metal, push-on 49 mm. lens cap
labeled Heiland Pentax. Does anyone know what this company was, and when
they were the importer?
If memory serves, they were a division of Honeywell. They, Honeywell
Gary L. Murphy wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2001 22:27:41 -0400, Frank Theriault wrote:
Yeah, well, it's the short-term memory that goes first anyway! :-)
Huh? What was your name again? :-))
Later,
Gary
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