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Originally Posted by Nantucket Red 
They clearly never felt the impulse to standardize the placement of their controls. I think the Nikon F set the pattern everyone else followed.
When did Alpa go out of business and what was their last model?
When did Alpa go out of business and what was their last model?
Actually, I think it was the Asahi Pentax S that standardised controls for the 35mm SLR as we know it in the late 1950s. The Nikon F is best known as the camera that kneecapped the German Camera industry when photojournalists in the 1960s traded in their Rolleiflex's and Leica M2s and M3s for the great leap forward from Japan.
I wrote a little piece for my Camera Club newsletter, Nikon F had design features were way ahead of it's time (like interchangeable Focusing screens and different meterheads/prisms/viewfinders). I have two F's and they are great to shoot with.
Bill
