AOHC - Asahi Optical Historical Club: Year 1997

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Year 1997

Contents of SPOTMATIC magazine 1997

Number 14 - October 1997

page   3 - The next family... A history of Pentax K-mount cameras seen from the body engineers point of view
page   7 - A homemade cable release for Pentax AF bodies
page   8 - Asahi Pentax Original (AP) and Asahi Pentax S: the first steps of a successful dynast
page 11 - Pentax and the Web: the best sites
page 14 - Shooting football game with a Pentax
page 15 - Sales&Wants: classified adverts
page 16 - Answers to AOHC Quiz no.3
page 17 - 2nd Pentax Day in Florence
page 18 - 1997 Questionnaire: analysis of results
page 19 - Who are we? Matteo Ferrarin
page 20 - Pentax News: Pentax 645N, the first medium format AF
page 21 - Pentax News: Pentax MZ-5N/ZX-5N
page 21 - Pentax News: SMC Pentax-FA 43mm f/1.9 Limited
page 22 - Pentax News: Pentax MZ-M, a new manual focus SLR!
page 22 - Pentax News: SMC Pentax-FA Zoom 80-320mm f/4.5-5.6
page 22 - Pentax News: SMC Pentax-FA* 400mm f/5.6 ED(IF) split diagram
page 22 - Pentax News: efina: Pentax launches first APS camera
page 23 - Pentax News. Pentax EI-C90 digital camera introduced
page 23 - Pentax News: More new introductions in Japan
page 24 - Chat Corner: A list of Pentax books

Authors: E. Barchiesi, D. Bonazza, R. Burgos, R. Engelmann, P. Hoffman, H. Ugawa.

Number 13 - July 1997

page   2 - Pentax Users' Gallery (a few pictures from Doug Brewer's gallery)
page   4 - Terence Donovan 1936-1996 "Click that launched a thousand faces"
page   5 - Horus-Sicof prize to Maurizio Rebuzzini
page   6 - A normal normal lens (a history of standard lenses from Asahiflex to FA series)
page 10 - Asahi Pentax and "Macrophotography" (2nd part)
page 14 - Sales&Wants: classified adverts
page 15 - 2nd Pentax Day
page 16 - The "floating system" wide-angle SMC Pentax 28mm f/2
page 18 - 10 questions to Wolfgang Rentsch of R.&C. Service
page 20 - AOHC: three!
page 20 - Thank-you Carlo!
page 21 - Pentax beatens Leica, again
page 22 - AOHC Quiz no.3
page 23 - Asahi Pentax 35mm SLR Pistol, .22 magnum (1966)
page 23 - K-bayonet Russian lenses
page 24 - Pentax News: Pentax MZ-3
page 25 - Pentax autumn news and rumors
page 26 - Documents: A list of Pentax books
page 27 - Pentax MZ-3: the details (pictures and captions)

Authors: E. Barchiesi, D. Bonazza, D. Cecchi, T. Chan, R. Engelmann, E. Punelli, H. Ugawa.

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