ASAHI PENTAX & PENTAX SLR 35MM CAMERAS 1952-1989 BOOK - NEW HARDCOVER COPY

Description

"Asahi Pentax and Pentax SLR 35mm Cameras 1952-1989" by Danilo Cecchi, Hove Foto Books 1991. Hardcover, 6 x 8-1/2, 193 pages, illustrated in color and black and white. A collector's guide to Pentax cameras. Traces the development of the camera models and lenses and the history of Asahi Optical.
Written by an Italian architect, with an emphasis on the industrial design work exemplified in Pentax cameras.
CONTENTS
USA Model Names
Introduction
Rise and Fall of the Screw Mount
The Asahiflex
The First Asahi Pentax Family
Asahi Pentax before TTL
The Era of the Spotmatic
Asahi Pentax and Electronics
The Dreams of Asahi Pentax
Takumar-The Eyes of Asahi Pentax
From Screw to Bayonet
The K-Family
Asahi Pentax MX, The Little Professional
The ME-Family, The Electronic Challenge
Pentax LX, The Big Professional
The A-Family, The Programmed Pentaxes
The P-Family, Program and Multiprogram
Pentax Today, The Pentax Autofocus Reflex Cameras
Pentax Bayonet-Mount Lenses
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WHO WE ARE:
CameraBooks is a husband/wife home-based small business specializing in books, original (not photocopies) instruction manuals and user guides focused (pun) on camera equipment, photography practice and photography as art. We also have our Oddog2 Ebay store which specializes in mostly photographic and astronomical gear but also other interesting or useful items as they come our way. We have 49 years of experience (22 years as a hobby, 27 as a full time effort) with photographic equipment, both as a shooter (17 years as a newspaper photojournalist) and as collectors/restorers/sellers. We have been on eBay as Oddog or Oddog2 since September 1999 and now also on CameraBooks since the beginning of 2020.