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Re: Exakta 66 - seventeen years old?
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> Stacey wrote:
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> > steven.sawyer@banet.net wrote:
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> > > 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)?
> > >
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
From my own bitter experience with two Exakta 66, they certainly weren't
an improvement in reliabilty over the P6. And things got even worse from
there after they came up with this total failure of a MLU mechanism.
I'd certainly have a K60 over a P6 or Exakta 66 any day.
Ralf
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