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What does it mean to destroy Pentax?

Pentax disappeared: sold all Pentax-related equipment and switched to other brands of equipment.

PENTAX is a world-famous optical brand. Its products cover astronomical telescopes, medical endoscopes, glasses, etc. Pentax's brand culture can be traced back to the Asahi Optical Joint Venture founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1919.

Asahi Optical Company is a famous optical manufacturer in Japan, which has created many world firsts and Japanese firsts in the photography industry. As the SLR camera brand of Asahi Optical, Pentax once dominated for a while and existed as the world-famous Pentax Co., Ltd. (In 2002, Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. officially changed its name to Pentax Co., Ltd.).