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Old 06-17-2013, 11:05 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
But, according to all the company history I can Google, "ikon" had nothing to do with it. Hm. It should have.
I think it was camera maker Zeiss Ikon AG (as oppose to lens-maker Carl Zeiss Jena) who made that connection when choosing the name for the then-new company formed by the merger of four German camera companies in the 1920s...
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