" SLR: Why the camera makers built a lens mount Tower of Babel.

Some TLR had interchangeable lenses but as these had to be paired lenses they were relatively heavy and did not provide the range of focal lengths that the SLR could support.

Minolta positioned most of its cameras to compete in the amateur market, though it did produce a very high quality MF SLR in the XD-11.

The two photographic giants, Canon and Nikon did not introduce their own SLR cameras until 1959 with the Canonflex and the F-series respectively.

The camera that replaced it ( the Contarex SLR ) was a fine camera, but it cost so much more money, it never made the inroads into the market the Contax did, then we had to stop carrying the Contarex because they were too much money.

Fitch did, however, return to official automotive competition at 87 years of age in 2003 and again in 2005, when he was once again teamed up with a now 50 year old Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR owned by Bob Sirna, this time at Bonneville Salt Flats in an attempt to break the land speed record for the class, a novel venue for both car and driver.

" The Camera Collector: Schneider ’ s screw-mount SLR saga, part 1: Where did Praktica get its Pentax mount and was it such a Zeiss idea?

He did well at the C & SLR and was promoted, first to resident engineer ( RE ) for the extension of the C & SLR from Stockwell to Clapham, then to RE for the entire line.

" Test: Nikon FM3A: The Nikon FM3A: Does the latest manual-focus Nikon SLR make the grade as an instant classic?

" SLR Notebook: Recent Casualties: Vanishing Breed of SLR?

" Keppler's SLR Notebook: Are You Buying What's You Need Or Do You Purchase ' Fashionable ' Equipment?

" SLR notebook: Byzantine puzzle: When is a discontinued camera a discontinued camera?

" SLR: Did Pentax really turn the K1000 into a cheap plastic has been?

" SLR Notebook: Recent Casualties: Vanishing Breed of SLR?

Barton said harshly, `` Why did you do that ''??

Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

`` Why did you do it -- why did you hit him ''??

There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??

Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

Why did Prokofieff expand in stature and fecundity, while Stravinsky ( who leaped into fame like a young giant ) dwindled in stature and fruitfulness??

The middle-aged man said over and over, `` Why did I come here, why did I come here ''.

And Mr. Skyros didn't like Angie, but what with Prettyman and three of his boys inside, and not likely to come out -- And Angie such a valuable salesman, Prettyman said -- All the nuisance and danger of getting in touch with practically a whole new bunch of boys -- Why did everything have to happen at once??

`` Why on earth did I send him off to work??

Why did they engage in a flood of mea culpas, throw a few scapegoats to the dogs and promise to be good boys thereafter, expressing their complete confidence in the laws ''??

Why did the Belgians grant independence to a colony so manifestly unprepared to accept it??

Why did he want her to go to church??

`` Why did you kill it ''??

On seeing his father, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá fell to his knees and wept loudly " Why did you leave us?

For example, one begins to answer the question " Why did China not develop modern science and capitalism?

" by asking the question " Why are we assuming that what China did develop was not modern science and capitalism?

“ That account is put forward to answer an extremely perplexing question in the history of philosophy: Why did Berkeley embrace idealism, i. e., why did he hold that esse est percipi, that to be is to be perceived?

Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity hath produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more?

:: Why did you leave me here all alone?

: Why did the Lord give us agility,

: Can you treat a police officer seriously, when he is asking you: " Why did you participate in an illegal meeting of dwarfs?

The " four witness " standard comes from the Quran itself, a revelation Muhammad announced in response to accusations of adultery leveled at his wife, Aisha: " Why did they not produce four witnesses?

The Koch Industries website includes an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal by Charles Koch, one of the company's owners, " Why Koch Industries is Speaking Out.

Commodore took out aggressive ads featuring William Shatner asking consumers " Why buy just a video game?

In Europe, the early years of personal computing ( 1981 – 1985 ) were spearheaded by the very aggressive marketing of inexpensive home computers with the theme " Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for university?

A two track vinyl-only EP entitled We R Are Why, similar in style to Tri Repetae, was available to buy during certain concerts and via mail order during 1996.

Why buy the cow, when consumers can get the milk for free?

Said Barry, " Why should blacks feel elated when we see men eating on the moon when millions of blacks and poor whites don't have enough money to buy food here on earth?

* Why did BMW buy Rover?

( the Muppet Theater's Christmas " Spectacular Spectacular " opens with a number set at the " Moulin Scrooge ," which climaxes as Miss Piggy dons the role of Satine and performs " Santa Baby "), Cirque du Soleil ( feebly adapted by an apathetic choreographer as the " Cirque du So Lame "), A Beautiful Mind ( when Dr. Honeydew works out the money needed to save the theater's finances by doodling on a window, and, after listening to Beaker squeak, responds, " Why, thank you, Beaky, I think you have a beautiful mind, too "), For Dummies books ( Daniel is given a book called Performing Miracles for Dummies ), and the old Gift of the Magi comedy routine ( coming to a crashing halt in this film when one of the participants forgot to sell or buy anything ).