Japan got so good at copying cameras & lenses, that some of the European countries.... especially Germany, began to help them out as the knew there market was in jeopardy. Japan began turning out far superior cameras in short order. Pentax, which was an unused VEB Zeiss camera name sold to Asahi, started out with the M42 mount & had the K mount developed with Zeiss.
In '72, Zeiss got out of camera manufacturing all together. The camera line was absorbed by Voigtlander, which was a subsidiary of Zeiss anyhow. When Zeiss wanted a camera to hang their quality lenses on, they rented out the Contax name to Yashica. The C/Y cameras were popular for about a decade before Kyocera bought them up & the rights to Contax went back to Zeiss.
The history of cameras in the 50's & 60's really makes for some interesting reading.
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