Named in honor of Asahi Optical Company's 60th Anniversary (LX is 60 in Roman numerals), the Pentax LX debuted in 1980 as a world-class professional K-mount Pentax, designed to challenge such well-established archrivals as the Nikon F3, Canon New F-1, Olympus OM-1n and OM-2n, and the Contax RTS.
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