Word: photokina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong as ever in the precision quality of their work but slow to innovate, the fine old German camera-making companies have seen their share of the world market slip from 55% eleven years ago to 25% last year. Last week, as shutterbugs swarmed through Cologne's ninth "Photokina," the biggest camera exhibit in the world, the Germans made a big bid to show that they are thinking most positively about negatives...
...most memorable to him, since the old Japanese reputation still rankled, is the occasion two years ago when he took the Canonet, along with a 2000-mm. television zoom lens, a 50-mm. lens four times faster than the human eye, and other Canon products to the Cologne Photokina Exhibit. It was a tough audience of German cameramakers to play to. Crows Mitarai: "We demonstrated, and the Europeans admitted, that Japanese products were no longer mere improved copies. They were based on original techniques...
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