Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 27 - "Leina's Blood, Part 1” (リィナの血 (前)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Pentax cameras and the mobile suits that appear in this episode.

- Pentax Brand overview and a brief history of the Asahi Optical Corporation.

- Wikipedia page for Pentax.

- A Brief History of Japanese Binocular Production, by Peter Abrahams.

_- One example of the kind of thing Asahi Optical made during the war. _

- About Super-Multi Coating (SMC).

- What is a pentaprism?

- Camera innovations in 1983 (when the Pentax Super A was released).

- A detailed review of the Super A/Super Program.

- The Pentax manuals for the Super A/Super Program and Program A/Program Plus showing design features like the illuminating window and the Prontor-Compur terminals.

- Early auto-focusing cameras from the '80s, including the Pentax ME-F and its competitors.

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