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The SP series (<U>S</U>uper <U>P</U>erformance) was first introduced in 1979.<REF name="official1970"> See [http://www.tamron.co.jp/corp/history/index1970.html this official history page] (1970s). </REF> | The SP series (<U>S</U>uper <U>P</U>erformance) was first introduced in 1979.<REF name="official1970"> See [http://www.tamron.co.jp/corp/history/index1970.html this official history page] (1970s). </REF> | ||
| − | Tamron took shares of the [[Bronica]] company in 1995 and fully absorbed it in 1998.<REF> See [http://www.tamron.co.jp/corp/history/index1990.html this official history page] (1990s). </REF> | + | Tamron took shares of the [[Bronica]] company in 1995 and fully absorbed it in 1998.<REF> See [http://www.tamron.co.jp/corp/history/index1990.html this official history page] (1990s). </REF> The last Bronica products were discontinued in 2005 but Tamron is still (2007) active as a lens maker. |
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Revision as of 12:04, 22 September 2007
Tamron is a Japanese optical company. It was founded in 1950 as Taisei Kōgaku Kiki Seisakusho (泰成光学機器製作所), under the direction of Watanabe Fujio (渡辺冨士雄), and was incorporated as Taisei Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. (泰成光学工業㈱) in 1952.[1] The company was initially based in Urawa (浦和市) (today part of Saitama City), but it moved to a new plant in Hasunuma, Ōmiya (大宮市蓮沼) (today also part of Saitama City).[1]
The company introduced the T-mount in 1957, a system of interchangeable bayonet mounts allowing the same lens to be mounted on various SLR brands.[1] The "T" presumably stands for Taisei, not Tamron: the Tamron brand was only adopted in 1961 and would not become the company name (K.K. Tamron, ㈱タムロン) until 1970.[2] The T-mount was adopted by various other optical companies. It does not provide automatic diaphragm preselection, and was superseded in 1966 by the Adapt-A-Matic system, allowing the transmission of the automatic diaphragm for various SLR cameras, itself replaced by the Adaptall system in 1976.[3]
The SP series (Super Performance) was first introduced in 1979.[4]
Tamron took shares of the Bronica company in 1995 and fully absorbed it in 1998.[5] The last Bronica products were discontinued in 2005 but Tamron is still (2007) active as a lens maker.
Links
In English:
- History page of the US official website
In Japanese:
- History page of the official website
