Takumar
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Takumar refers to a line of high quality photographic lenses produced by Asahi Optical Co beginning in the 1950s. The name is a reference to Takuma Kajiwara (Kajiwara Takuma)[1], a well known Japanese-American photographer and painter, who was the younger brother of Kumao Kajiwara founder of Asahi Kogaku Kogyo G.K. (Asahi Optical Corp). The analogy of using of lenses to paint with light as if they were brushes and the addition of the letter R to the end gave the name Takumar a nice poetic ring.