Talk:History of the single-lens reflex camera
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[edit] Factual changes
I've made various factual changes, courtesy of information in Nihon no rekishiteki kamera / The Japanese historical camera rev. ed. (Tokyo: Nihon Kamera Hakubutsukan, 2004). This book really ought to be more widely circulated; this would help dispel the (American?) myth that the Japanese camera industry was born around 1946. -- Hoary 15:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pentax control layout
We read: The Asahi Pentax established the control layout used on the vast majority of SLRs in the next 30 years. . . . While little on the F was truly new, it was a well-made camera, and adhered closely to the Asahi Pentax's control scheme which was quickly becoming a de facto standard.
What's all this about? What part of the Asahi Pentax control layout was innovative or influential? (Not the thumb-wind, surely: this had been introduced to Japanese cameras by the Pigeon 35III in 1952.) Meanwhile, the Nikon F adhered pretty closely to the layout of the immediately preceding Nikon rangefinder cameras (cf the odd placing of the shutter release button). -- Hoary 15:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- No response, so I made the changes that I thought were necessary. -- Hoary 05:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Good changes, Hoary ...
I'm glad someone has access to better research material than I. Much of this stuff is not very well documented (at least in English-language sources I've access to) and many sources in print are simply inaccurate. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 22:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Adding Olympus information
When I read the History of the Single-Lens Reflex entry, I was dumbfounded that no one had seen fit to record Olympus' contributions. So I added details of the OM-1, OM-2, OM-3 and OM-4. Mention of these cameras are important because of their unprecedented influence on the overall design and direction of SLR cameras specifically and broadly.
