I probably should have been more clear in my description as I
didn't mean to imply that he literally brought all the lenses over from
Japan. What I was really trying to say was that he's been in the
photography business going back that far -- though I don't know just how
long he did stay over there after the war. I doubt it was quite that
long, but he gave the impression that it was a not-insignificant period
of time.
He even talked for a while about an attempt by the people at Sony to buy
lenses from Asahi Optical, but that the guy who created Asahi resisted
it for a long time due to some bad blood between himself and one of the
people behind Sony's efforts. Apparently, for a long time he thought
Sony was going to try and buy him out completely, and for reasons
attributable to Japanese business culture, he refused to even talk to them.
I wish I could remember more of the details. It was fascinating to
listen to the guy talk about it, but he jumped from one tangent to the
next, and it was hard to keep track of it all. I'm looking forward to
going back to talk to the guy again, though.
-- Walt
On 2/4/2011 2:21 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Walter Gilbert
The greatest thing is that the guy I got the 50/1.4 from acted like he
has scads and scads of old Pentax glass around. Apparently, after
serving in WWII, he was deployed to Japan as part of the occupying
force, and stayed there for quite a while afterward.
It would have been *QUITE* a while. Pentax introduced the K-mount in
1975 - 20 years after the war was over. 8-D
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