As an owner and user of the classic Asahi Pentax Spotmatic when I came across an image of this special 50th anniversary ‘Design Study Model’ digital SLR I was quite intrigued. Then I heard the ‘nah nah, nah nah nah’ in my head from Pentax when I read that this ‘celebration’ model apparently will not be built for consumer production. Thanks Pentax for dangling the carrot, hope that planned merger with Hoya goes well…From the official press release
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Asahi Pentax (common name: AP type) since its release in 1957. Taking this opportunity, we built up a design study model based on Digital SLR K10D. Asahi Pentax AP features Pentaprism for the first time that led to the origin of PENTAX brand. PENTAX materialized correct image of viewfinder image which was previous challenge for PENTAX. The built-in flash was removed from this design study model, and recreated characteristic delta roof for Asahi Pentax AP.
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