On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:26:43PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 2/7/13, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >How's that for a provocative subject line? :-) > > > >No more Pentax, now just Ricoh in the company name: > > > >http://www.pentaximaging.com/about/press/309 > > So what's in a name then ? > > My first ever photography class at junior high school in 1972 was taken > by a teacher with a Pentax hanging from his neck and ever since then I > aspired to that. It was like a brick of gold.
IIRC, while Pentax was (and remains) the brand name, the company name back in those days was Asahi Optical Co. -- 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.
