[Leica] Was Bellows now Pentax.
Montie
montoid at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 8 20:35:10 PST 2017
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
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