Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-31 Thread petit miam
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

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-31 Thread petit miam
Okay, Okay. I was wrong, I admit it. Just ignore me. Jody. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-31 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
- From: petit miam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-29 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
Thanks again, John. Paul M. Provencher (ppro) -Original Message- From: John Mullan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When was Heiland Pentax? petit miam wrote: Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-29 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Check out Spotmatic at Yahoo!Groups at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spotmatic - Original Message - From

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-29 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
) -Original Message- From: petit miam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread petit miam
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 the demise of the screw-mount

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread Ray Allen
: 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

Vs: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread Raimo Korhonen
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: petit miam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Päivä: 27. toukokuuta 2001 9:14 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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread John Mullan
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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread Chris Brogden
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 -

RE: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-27 Thread Peter Alling
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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-24 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
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

When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-23 Thread Joseph Tainter
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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-23 Thread Gary L. Murphy
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

Re: When was Heiland Pentax?

2001-05-23 Thread John Mullan
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 - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to