Read more: Pentax Forums review. SLR-style handling makes it excellent for street work. Read more: Ken Rockwell review. Pentax Auto 55 pts Probably the best format camera ever produced, this was the only camera that came with a full range of lenses and other accessories.
Read more: Classic Cameras review. Read more: Jake Horn Photography review. A solid, metal-heavy, entry-level camera from the golden age of SLRs. Read more: Casual Photophile review. Pentax 80 pts Even more popular than the autofocus models, the original, mids Pentax clearly remains a favourite with medium format shooters on the go.
Read more: Emulsive review. Read more: Simon Hawketts review. Read more: 35mmc review. Pentax KX 93 pts One of three K-mount cameras released in the mids to replace the Msporting Spotmatic family, the KX is a higher-spec brother of the KM, featuring a higher Iso range and mirror lock-up. Plastic but fantastic. Read more: Christopher J Osborne review. Pentax 67 II pts Nearly 30 years after the release of the original Pentax 67, the ultimate incarnation of this gargantuan medium format SLR was released in Read more: Luminous Landscape review.
Its fantastic suite of lenses helped create a formidable reputation. Read more: Daniel J Schneider review. Read more: Japan Camera Hunter review. From , the company produced Optor and meniscus achromat lenses designed at Rokuoh-sha for Konishiroku models. From the mids to the end of World War II, the company was also the main supplier of Molta, then Chiyoda Kogaku Seiko predecessors of Minolta , whose cameras were equipped with Coronar and Promar lenses.
The company changed status in , becoming Asahi Kogaku Kogyo K. After the war, Asahi made binoculars and polished lenses for several other companies. The first camera produced by Asahi was the Asahiflex , that was also the first Japanese 35mm SLR , made as a prototype in and released in One of the models of the Asahiflex series, the Asahiflex IIb, was the first 35mm SLR to have an instant-return mirror , thus solving the problem of mirror blackout which had plagued SLRs up to that time early SLRs left the mirror in its "up" position until the camera was wound for the next shot, blacking out the viewfinder.
A series of lenses bearing the name Takumar in honor of Kajiwara Takuma , brother of the founder, were developed for the Asahiflex, which used the 37mm screw mount The name Takumar was carried over to the 35mm M42x1 mount and 6x7 cameras and went through a series of iterations as build quality and coatings were developed with names such as Super-Takumar, Super-Multi-Coated Takumar, and SMC Takumar until when the name was changed to SMC-Pentax even though Takumar lenses were in the catalog until Pentax was originally the name of another 35mm SLR camera model, introduced in and successor of the Asahiflex.
The name is derived from the shape of the prism used in SLR cameras penta prism , and the ending deliberately looks like the Zeiss Ikon Con tax. And many others have the name "Heiland" as it was the importer and distributor in the USA, later acquired by "Honeywell", until the partnership ended in These cameras were exactly the same as the ones stamped with the Asahi name.
Pentax was at the time one of the big Japanese camera manufacturers, given their success with 35mm SLR cameras such as the Asahi Flex, The Pentax and the Spotmatic line. In , Pentax introduced a complete camera systems for rollfilm , which looks live an overgrown SLR, caller Pentax Later it introduced its tiny and popular Pentax Auto for type film cassettes.
In fact K-mount should have been an open bayonet standard, and a handful of other renowned camera makers also used it, among those Pentax's K-mount : Zenit , Topcon , Chinon , Cosina , Ricoh , Samsung. But most important: The mount was further developed and still in use for Pentax's digital SLRs and even for one of its CSCs , making all new cameras back-compatible.
The company kept the name Asahi Optical Co. After successful prototyping since the company launched its first DSLR with a film twin in , with Pentax K mount. A merger with the Hoya Corporation was completed on October 1, In July, Ricoh announced its intentions to purchase the Pentax photographic-equipment business from Hoya who, however, will retain some Pentax-branded medical product lines, etc [7]. Wanted Pentax Items. Price Watch Forum. List a New Item. Get seller access! Pentax Retailer Map.
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