Yes, in a way. Asahi Optical Company was in the company name, before it became "Pentax Corperation". Pentax was (is) a camera, developed by Asahi Optical Co. Many Japanese companies have the word "Asahi" (Rising Sun) included in their name, but I don't believe too many of them (other than AOC) made lenses.
BTW: The website of Asahi Optical Historical Club (AOHC) is accompanied by music. Guess what, it's the House of the Rising Sun - naturally :-) BTW 2: Wasn't this a song about a very naughty place: "Oh, mother, tell your children, not to do what I have have done, spend your lives in misery, in the House of Rising Sun! This perhaps explain all the whining about the darned equipment, comming from this place :-)))Regards Jens http://www.aohc.it/indexe.htm Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Russell Kerstetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 16. januar 2006 21:36 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: Pentax newbie lens questions.... My thought behind my question about Asahi lenses, is that I have an A24/2.8 that says "Pentax" on it, but somewhere else I saw one that has "Asahi Pentax" on it, and I wondered if the diffrence was when they were made, or if there was something else. So Asahi and Pentax are the same then?
