Confirmed by the SLR history here which also mentions some
historically significant Olympus contributions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_single-
lens_reflex_camera#Exakta
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / October 30, 2007 CE, at 2:21 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> They seem to have let their excitement at the anniversary get in
> the way of
> reality. The AP was certainly not the first camera to feature a
> pentaprism,
> not even the first 35mm camera to feature a pentaprism. Among the
> predecessors of the Pent@x was the Cont@x S, an East German camera
> made at
> the former Cont@x works - the works which later became known as
> Pent@con.
> As I recall the brand name that was used was an adaptation of the
> Cont@x
> name to reflect the pentaprism added (Pentaprism + Cont@x) ... the
> name was
> Pent@x, and Asahi Optical bought the rights to the name from the East
> Germans.
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