Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/02/08

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Subject: [Leica] Was Bellows now Pentax.
From: montoid at earthlink.net (Montie)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:35:10 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
 
Good little slrs, and the excellent Takumar glass, used a few in the
Navy late 60s.

Montie 



>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the late '60s, I bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic from Yokohama Camera 
> Company and imported it myself.  The camera came with some silver putty 
> over the mirror housing to hide the Asahi label.  It peeled right off, and 
> I guess it was meant to bypass the Honeywell franchise on the name Pentax 
> Spotmatic.  It was my first slr, since I learned on an Agfa and a King 
> Regula rangefinder.


sounds a bit like my story, was in Cannes,   went to Zurich to buy a pentax 
Spotmatic, Asahi,   still have it and a Pentax lens a 50mm f 1.4, which I 
have and it works fine.

steve