I bought an Asahi Pentax and three lenses in Japan in 1967, and they had the stickers.
Dan On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Jerry in Arizona <[email protected]> wrote: > Like so many here have mentioned, while stationed overseas in the 60's I > bought > a Minolta SRT-101 Kit from somewhere in Asia and those lenses also had the > > JCII stickers on them. > > Jerry > > > <<2010/10/20 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: >> >> Gold? Silver? >> >> I remember the stickers, but don't remember if they were gold or silver or >> either/both. >> >> I do remember someone telling me some quasi-governmental agency inspected >> every lens exported from Japan to insure it met quality standards. > > Gold. I still have lots of them. > > from photonotes.com: > > Gold oval-shaped stickers reading PASSED and JCII indicate that the > camera has passed quality control inspections by the JCII (Japan > Camera Industry Institute). > > This practice of applying the JCII stickers seems to have stopped at > some point in the late 1980s. Gold stickers merely reading PASSED are > probably just slapped on by the manufacturer to make you feel good > since they do not indicate inspection by any reputable third party.>> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
