Pentax
Japanese optics company and brand owned by Ricoh
Pentax
Pentax Corporation (ペンタックス株式会社, Pentakkusu Kabushiki gaisha) was a Japanese camera and optical equipment manufacturer. Currently, it exists as Pentax Medical, a division of Hoya's medical endoscope business, as well as the digital and film camera brand of Ricoh Imaging Company, a subsidiary of Ricoh, and TI Asahi Co, Ltd., a manufacturer of surveying equipment. Pentax, founded in 1919 as Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha, a town workshop specializing in polishing eyeglass lenses, developed Japan's first single-lens reflex camera, the Asahiflex, in 1952. In 1938, it changed its name to Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.. In the mid-1950s, Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. acquired the German brand Pentax, and Asahi Pentax Corporation was established in Japan as a sales company. In 2002, Asahi Optical Co. changed its name to Pentax Corporation. By 2006, Pentax's domestic market share in digital cameras had declined to 4%. In 2007, Pentax was acquired by Hoya and subsequently merged with the company the following year...
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