Difference between revisions of "Pentax"
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− | * [[Pentax Optio 33L]] | + | * Pentax EI-2000 - 2000 |
− | * | + | * Pentax EI-200 - 2000 |
+ | * Pentax EI-3000 - 2001 - prototype | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 330 - 2001 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 430 - 2001 | ||
+ | * Pentax DB-100 - 2002 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 230 - 2002 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 330 RS - 2002 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 430 RS - 2002 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 330 GS - 2002 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 450 - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 550 - 2003 | ||
+ | * [[Pentax Optio 33L]] - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 33WR - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 555 - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S4 - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 33LF - 2003 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio MX - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 30 - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S40 - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S4i - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 43WR - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S30 - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S50 - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S5i - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio X - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 750Z - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio SV - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio MX4 - 2004 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio WP - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 50 - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S5n - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S45 - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S55 - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S5z - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio SVi - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 60 - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S60 - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S6 - 2005 | ||
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+ | * Pentax Optio WPi - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio 50L - 2005 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio A10 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E10 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio T10 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M10 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W10 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S7 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio A20 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W20 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M20 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio T20 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E20 - 2006 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E30 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio T30 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M30 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio A30 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W30 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M40 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E40 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio Z10 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S10 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio A40 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio V10 - 2007 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E50 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M50 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio S12 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio V20 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W60 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M60 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E60 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E65 - 2008 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio P70 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E70 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E70L - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax X70 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E75 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W80 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio P80 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E80 - 2009 | ||
+ | |valign="top"| | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio WS80 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio M85 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E85 - 2009 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio I-10 - 2010 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio H90 - 2010 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio E90 - 2010 | ||
+ | * Pentax X90 - 2010 | ||
+ | * Pentax Optio W90 - 2010 | ||
== 35mm film == | == 35mm film == |
Revision as of 12:09, 25 January 2011
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Pentax is a Japanese camera maker, founded in 1919.
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History
The company that would become Pentax was founded in 1919 as Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō G.K. (旭光学工業㈾). It was originally an optical company, beginning by making glasses under the Aoco brand (presumably the acronym of Asahi Optical Company), and made its first Aoco projection lens in 1923.[1] It began to produce camera lenses in the early 1930s, under the impulsion of the CEO Kajiwara Kumao (梶原熊雄) and his closest collaborator Matsumoto Saburō (松本三郎).[2] These lenses were not marked as made by Asahi, and were produced lenses for various camera models made by other makers. From 1933, the company produced Optor and meniscus achromat lenses designed at Rokuoh-sha for Konishiroku models. From the mid-1930s to the end of World War II, the company was also the main supplier of Molta, then Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (predecessors of Minolta), whose cameras were equipped with Coronar and Promar lenses.[3]
The company changed status in 1938, becoming Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (旭光学工業㈱) or Asahi Optical Co. based in Tokyo.[4] It would keep this name until it became Pentax Corporation (ペンタックス㈱) in 2002. A merger with the Hoya Corporation was completed on October 1, 2007. The new name is Hoya Pentax HD Corporation (HOYAペンタックスHD㈱).[5]
The first camera produced by Asahi was the Asahiflex, that was also the first Japanese 35mm SLR, made as a prototype in 1951 and released in 1952. 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).
Pentax was originally the name of another 35mm SLR camera model, introduced in 1957 and successor of the Asahiflex. The name is derived from the shape of the prism used in SLR cameras (pentaprism), and the ending deliberately looks like the Zeiss Ikon Contax. In fact, the name Pentax was a property of Zeiss Ikon until they sold it to Asahi Optical Co.
Many Pentax cameras were sold stamped with the name "Honeywell". Actually Honeywell was only a distributor, and these cameras were exactly the same as the ones stamped with the Asahi name.
Digital
SLR
- Pentax MZ-D - 2000 - prototype, never released
- Pentax * ist D - 2003
- Pentax * ist DS - 2004
- Pentax * ist DL - 2005 - also sold by Samsung as GX-1L
- Pentax * ist DS2 - 2005 - also sold by Samsung as GX-1S
- Pentax K100D - 2006
- Pentax K110D - 2006
- Pentax K10D - 2006 - also sold by Samsung as Samsung GX-10
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- Pentax K100D Super - 2007
- Pentax K20D - 2008 - also sold by Samsung as Samsung GX-20
- Pentax K200D - 2008
- Pentax K-m - 2008 - also sold as Pentax K2000D in North America
- Pentax K-7 - 2009
- Pentax K-x - 2009
- Pentax K-5 - 2010
- Pentax K-r - 2010
Medium Format SLR
- Pentax 645D - 2010
Point and Shoot Cameras
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35mm filmK-mount autofocus SLR
K-mount manual focus SLRPentax K series: Pentax M series:
Pentax A series:
Pentax P series: Other:
Screw-mount Pentax SLR
Asahiflex SLRCompact
645 Medium FormatManual Focus Autofocus 6×7 Medium Format1969-present 110 film1979-1983 interchangeable lens SLR APS film
Asahi lenses on cameras from other makersNot all examples of the cameras listed below have Asahi lenses. Lenses not labeled as by AsahiFor Konishiroku:
For the predecessors of Minolta:
The Heliostar lenses were perhaps assembled by Asahi (see the discussion there). Lenses labeled as by AsahiNotes
Bibliography
Links
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