From: John Francis
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.
And before that, I believe it was either a newspaper company that owned
a brewery or a brewery that owned a newspaper. One or the other.
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