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Pentax Zoom 90
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2005.006.15.03
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[manufactured ca. 1999] (Creation)
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- Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.
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1 piece of photographic equipment: camera
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The company was founded as Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha in November 1919 by Kumao Kajiwara, at a shop in the Toshima suburb of Tokyo, and began producing spectacle lenses (which it still manufactures). In 1938 it changed its name to Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. (Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha), and by this time it was also manufacturing camera/cine lenses.
In the lead-up to World War II, Asahi Optical devoted much of its time to fulfilling military contracts for optical instruments. At the end of the war, Asahi Optical was disbanded by the occupying powers, being allowed to re-form in 1948. The company resumed its pre-war activities, manufacturing binoculars and consumer camera lenses for Konishiroku and Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō (later Konica and Minolta respectively).
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Item is a rtepresentant of the fully automatic point and shoot cameras. It ha a built in flash, a zoom lens f=35 to f=90 mm. A small LCD screen on the back allows the reading of data. The camera has a macro setting.The camera uses 35 mm film in standard cassettes. It has Autofocus.
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8976574
Item is from the Wilhelm E. Nassau/Wilfrid Laurier University donation, accession number 2011.018. Moved to the Heritage Camera Collection in 2013.
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- Wilfrid Laurier University (Subject)