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Re: Exakta 66 - seventeen years old?
Stacey wrote:
> steven.sawyer@banet.net wrote:
>
> > I know the Exakta 66 was introduced in the 1980s. My question is this:
> > is the camera now over seventeen years old and wouldn't that mean that
> > any patents applying to the Exakta 66 would now be expired? My question
> > primarily relates to the Schneider-only linkage from the lens to the
> > prism which is absent in all CZJ and Arsat lenses but could also relate
> > to other Exakta 66 improvements. Couldn't Arsenal, in typical "Soviet
> > era" fashion blatently copy this system (but now legally)?
> >
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> They copied anything they wanted illegally so why would they have stopped
> here? They have no interest in making them compatable with the exakta 66.
The Exakta 66 was the only substantial innovation in the P6 family of
cameras. The mechanism on a Kiev 60 may be different than a Pentacon 6, but
other than improved reliability, there was little functional improvement.
I can't predict the future, but I would think that it would behoove Arsenal to
make some improvements to their line. I read somewhere that Praktica is
making a P6 digital body, is this true?
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