The Honeywell Pentax is the same as the Asahi Pentax. The camera, made in
Japan, was marketed in the US by Honeywell. This is from the Pentax line
just prior to the Spotmatics. It was an excellent, rugged, small, all
mechanical screw mount camera. I used to own one, along with a light meter
that road atop the pentaprism and coupled with the shutter knob.
The only difference between the Honeywell and Asahi versions was the
camera's top plate, and the only difference between the camera top plates is
the name.
http://www.pentax.com/about/history/history_display.cfm?histpg=history_1960.
cfm
Regards,
Bob...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scooterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 6:14 AM
Subject: Re:NEW-er Stupid question #2
> I was tripping thru the pages of E-Bay & ran across a HONEYWELL Pentax
H1a.
>
> I promptly went to: http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~chanch/aohc/spot0010.html
to see if it was on
> their list of Spotomatics. Nope. Not there.
>
> http://www.penta-club.org/penta/archive/2/pentaxians/pentaxians.htm didn't
have a word on it.
>
> BOZ didn't have any thing on Honeywell.
>
> http://212.187.14.19/index2.html wouldn't have it cuz it's the ASHAI
club.....
>
> So what's the deal?? Nobody likes the Honeywells?? Everyone making
"definitive lists" couldn't
> find pics of a camera that ran neck & neck with Ashai??
>
> What gives?
>
> Only http://whitemetal.com/pentax/index_pentax_cameras.htm seemed to have
anything.
> Sherfy's page mentions Honeywell exactly once.
> ( http://www.concentric.net/~sherfy/special1.html )
> Bonazza mentions Honeywell when talking about TTL metering.... briefly.
>
> Why own an American camera when you can have the same model made in
Japan??
> I don't get it. Why's everyone seem to treat Honeywell like their wife's
ugly dog??
>
> Seems like folks would be lined up to get a "Tower 26". <g>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Thanks to Ueda San for making perfect sense of a tricky question on Kaf2
auto-zoom lenses.
>
> Scoot
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