On 29 Mar 98 at 23:24, R. Lee Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all:
> Here's one the short news notes I ran across about Oly in MP (4/73
> p.12):
>
> "Olympus President Ken Kambe: The M-1 is the hope on which we will
> concentrate our quality and quantity production aiming at a monthly
> production of 10,000 units by March or April [1973]. This has caused us
> to make great changes in our camera production policy since the Olympus
> Pen days. The FTL will be discontinued; compact and half-formats will
> be adjusted and reduced in number to the best types among presently
> existing designs.
> "As for Pocket Instamatics we would not touch it at present. As
> for the electronic shutter SLR this seems something we must tackle, but
> judging from the last Photokina, we feel we needn't hurry [the OM-2 came
> out about 2 years later]."
>
Hmm....
Two things I noticed here - the obvious one is that Oly has done in complete
about face since this statement with respect to "Pocket Instamatics".
The second one I find interesting is that they apparently went from drawing
board to production of the most advanced TTL/OTF autoexposure design in about 2
years, which is pretty quick for those days...
Let's hope one day they soon they can make a similar landmark innovation in
digital, as it's clear it won't happen ever again in conventional cameras.
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Shawn Wright
Computer Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
250-743-6240
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