That�s how it was - approximately - but there is a mistake: Nikon did not make any SLRs before 1959 - at which time Pentax was the market leader in SLRs. Pentax was the first Japanese manufacturer to make SLRs. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 20. elokuuta 2002 16:21 Aihe: Re: Next Pentax Flagship Camera? >Not from Bill... >Korea is where Nikon got its foot hold in the pro market. They did it by making >lenses that fit the Leica rangefinder cameras. Then they got some photographers to >try them. A well known Life photographer tried them and liked them very much. This >established Nikon's glass reputation, and made it much easier to sell their >rangefinder bodies. By the time the Pentax put its first SLR on sale, Nikon (which >had already been selling SLRs) was already established as a "pro" brand. What also >helped Nikon was that the US importer started the pro support program. That's why >these pro programs (which offer some very tangible benefits to working pros) are only >in some parts of the world and not others. By the beginning of the Vietnam war >photographers used Nikons if they used SLRs. >Pentax was always more popular in the UK than NA (Bill is Canadian, and probably >isn't keen as being thought of as American - so we'll call it North America). Keppler >mentioned in one of his pieces that he sold more copies of "The Pentax Way" in the UK >than NA. The real reason that Pentax is more popular in the UK is because of >socialized medicine. In the US doctors make enough to afford Nikons. > >BR - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
