Russian manufacturer KMZ has begun SLR (with a pentaprism!)
manufacturing at 1953 -
http://members.tripod.com/rick_oleson/index-9.html
Best regards,
Arthur D. Grokhovski
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Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 8:58 PM
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Subject: Vs: Next Pentax Flagship Camera?
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
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