Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax Of interest and significance is that they are owned by Hoya, who at least for a while (and may still be*) were supplying Leica with some lens blanks for M lenses. Marty *A very good strategy for becoming deeply unpopular is to go on a Leica factory tour and start asking where everything comes from. "Who supplies your brass / glass / coating raw materials etc". I think I almost got booted out. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: >> Alastair, Pentax is Japanese and it was the first SLR I bought when I got >> into photography in a serious way in 1985. It was called Super Program in >> the US (where I lived at the time) or Super A elsewhere. I later moved up >> to a Pentax LX, a wonderful piece of kit, built like a tank but from >> memory not nearly as big or heavy as today's pro DSLRs. I only sold in >> Brussels in the late 1990s, to partly finance the newly discovered Leica M >> system I was getting into at the time. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan > > I now remember Asahi Pentax as well. When I first got an SLR it was > "spotmatic" but I fell for the Minolta SRT 101 with its f1.2 55mm lens: > looked really "sexy" in the ad. Ended up with the f1.4, but loved the 101 > > Cheers > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >