HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENTAX!
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Karoly Kovacs
Nov 28, 2025, 12:31:07 AM11/28/25
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Károly
Today - November 27th, 2025 - marks the 106th birthday of the Asahi Optical Company - the
manufacturer behind Pentax cameras.
The list of innovations that the company gave the photographic world is beyond impressive - here are
just a few of their 'firsts':
✔️ The first Japanese SLR (the Asahiflex)
✔️ The world's first instant return mirror SLR
✔️ The world's first manufacturer to produce one million SLRs (also, later, the first to reach the
10 million milestone)
✔️ The world's first SLR with TTL automatic-exposure control.
✔️ The world's first through-the-lens autofocus camera.
✔️ The world's first gallium arsenide light meter in an SLR.
✔️ The world's first Super Multi-Coated lenses (Takumar lens series)
✔️ The world's first autofocus medium format SLR camera.
✔️ The world's first digital medium format SLR camera.
A short list, that whilst impressive, barely scratches the surface of their innovation.
To mark the anniversary today's camera from the collection is this Program A from 1984.
A manual-focus 35 mm SLR camera with fully automatic programmed exposure using the SMC-A line of
lenses (KA mount)
Károly
Today - November 27th, 2025 - marks the 106th birthday of the Asahi Optical Company - the
manufacturer behind Pentax cameras.
The list of innovations that the company gave the photographic world is beyond impressive - here are
just a few of their 'firsts':
✔️ The first Japanese SLR (the Asahiflex)
✔️ The world's first instant return mirror SLR
✔️ The world's first manufacturer to produce one million SLRs (also, later, the first to reach the
10 million milestone)
✔️ The world's first SLR with TTL automatic-exposure control.
✔️ The world's first through-the-lens autofocus camera.
✔️ The world's first gallium arsenide light meter in an SLR.
✔️ The world's first Super Multi-Coated lenses (Takumar lens series)
✔️ The world's first autofocus medium format SLR camera.
✔️ The world's first digital medium format SLR camera.
A short list, that whilst impressive, barely scratches the surface of their innovation.
To mark the anniversary today's camera from the collection is this Program A from 1984.
A manual-focus 35 mm SLR camera with fully automatic programmed exposure using the SMC-A line of
lenses (KA mount)
Róbert Bodnár
Nov 28, 2025, 4:21:05 AM11/28/25
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Itt az idő elővenni a Spotmaticokat. Úgyis régen használtam már őket.
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